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Welcome to Neighborhood Corner! Neighborhood Corner is intended to help activists share the story of their community with like-minded individuals, communities and the region at large. Marrying stories with some of the data that is available on the Neighborhood Nexus website brings a sharper focus to the messages we want to convey. It also gives a place for others to learn from the experiences your community has gone through.

Neighborhood:
Atlanta Region

The primary goal of Neighborhood Nexus is to foster a data-driven decision-making culture here in the Atlanta region. What follows is one example of how data and information from Neighborhood Nexus were used to make key decisions that will have lasting ramifications for hundreds of thousands residents in DeKalb County.

Neighborhood:
DeKalb County
County:
DeKalb

One of the most significant changes of the past decade is the changing geography of poverty. Once confined to dense urban centers and remote rural locales, poverty has spread forcefully into the suburbs. But, it's not like poverty has disappeared in the urban core - it increased slightly, in fact, and the heaviest concentrations are still found within a relatively small swath inside the City of Atlanta (See Map 1, attached to this post). But that small increase in the urban core was dwarfed by the increases found in the suburbs.

Neighborhood:
South Forsyth
County:
Forsyth

Most of us cannot imagine trucks pulling into our neighborhoods in the middle of the night to dump loads of used tires, but that is exactly what happens during the wee hours in many low-income neighborhoods in the City of Atlanta and across the region.

Disreputable tire centers and shade-tree mechanics routinely dump used tires in vacant lots and behind abandoned properties to avoid recycling fees. The resulting mounds of tires are not only eyesores; they create havens for mosquito larvae and rodents, leach dangerous chemicals into the soil, and provide hiding places for crime.

Neighborhood:
NPU-L, NPU-V, Southwest Atlanta
County:
Fulton

One of the primary drivers of the Atlanta region's growth over the past 20 years, or so, has been the in-migration of non-white populations, including those born abroad. In fact, between 2000 and 2010, more than 90 percent of the one million-plus new residents added came from non-white populations. The Atlanta region simply is not a bi-racial place anymore, although many of those old settlement patterns persist today.

Neighborhood:
Lilburn
County:
Gwinnett

Connectivity is key in today's global world. More and more services are being pushed online - job applications, class assignments and, of course, research necessary to complete those class assignments. Simply put, those who do not have access to the internet are being left on the other side of the digital divide. And it is quite startling to see how much broadband access is related to income and education and race. (Of course all of those things are related to one another, too).

Neighborhood:
Atlanta Region

As the housing bust continues to ripple through Atlanta, Carroll Heights (a neighborhood in NPU-H) as been affected by vacant and foreclosed homes.

Neighborhood:
NPU-H ADAMSVILLE
County:
Fulton

The NPU-H Communities have a great street mapping layout for travel by vehicle. Like many older suburban communities in Atlanta, we lack sidewalks in most neighborhoods and public transportation is not easily accessible. NPU-H has 17 neighborhoods. Ten of the seventeen are single-family dwelling neighborhoods with no multi-family housing.

Neighborhood:
NPU-H ADAMSVILLE
County:
Fulton

The Friends of Collier Heights Park Organization was established November 2004. The primary goals were to revitalize the park and create a sustainable health and wellness program.

Neighborhood:
NPU-H ADAMSVILLE
County:
Fulton