One of Flint's most notorious public housing complexes is going away - thanks to a $30 million federal grant.
Congressman Dan Kildee says Atherton East was part of a bad approach to public housing in the 1960s.
"Concentrating poverty in housing projects that are in the least desirable parts of a community, the cheapest land."
In this case, the housing was built on a floodplain and residents experienced chronic flooding.
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"Well, there's a reason the land was so cheap, it was isolated from the rest of the community and in this case was in a floodplain."
They were also cut off from the rest of the city by I-475.
Current residents will be relocated closer to services, and the NEW complex will be outside the floodplain.
It'll be a mixed-income development, not just low-income.
The grant also includes literacy and job training for residents and better access to health care.