Housing recovery sees great divide around Atlanta
The region reflects the complex ways that housing and race have long been intertwined in America
South Dekalb County, Georgia
WHEN the new subdivisions were rising everywhere here in the 1990s and early 2000s, with hundreds of fine homes on one-acre (0.4 hectare) lots carved out of the Georgia forest, the price divide between this part of DeKalb County and the northern part wasn't so vast.
Now, a house that looks otherwise identical in South DeKalb, on the edge of Atlanta, might sell for half what it would in North DeKalb. The difference has widened over the years of the housing boom, bust and recovery, and Wayne Early can't explain it.
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