{"553991":{"#nid":"553991","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The \u002796 Olympics: Techwood and the New Face of Public Housing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs Professor Thomas \u0022Danny\u0022 Boston was quoted in \u201cThe \u002796 Olympics: Techwood and the New Face of Public Housing\u201d for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E90.1 WABE\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The Old Bad History\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTechwood Homes was a place you would not drive through,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/amplifier.gatech.edu\/experts\/thomas-d-boston\u0022\u003EThomas Boston\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor of economics at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhere Centennial Place is now was the nation\u2019s oldest public housing, Techwood Homes. Boston said on his regular commutes from the Atlanta University Center he steered clear from the area.\u003C\/p\u003ELike many public housing projects around the country, Techwood (seen here to the right of the interstate) grappled with drug violence and units in disrepair.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was just such a distressed and troubled and violent neighborhood that you avoided it,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/96-olympics-techwood-and-new-face-public-housing\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-07-19 11:06:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:16","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/96-olympics-techwood-and-new-face-public-housing","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61224":{"id":"61224","type":"image","title":"Thomas Boston","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894533","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:13","alt":"Thomas Boston","file":{"fid":"191296","name":"tnk95313.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tnk95313_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tnk95313_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":608905,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tnk95313_0.jpg?itok=34vNYr-f"}}},"media_ids":["61224"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"169209","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1986","name":"Thomas Boston"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}