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Where are the 43 apartment complexes identified as dangerous and unhealthy?

Atlanta and Fulton County prosecutors are targeting persistently substandard housing after an AJC investigation, “Dangerous Dwellings”
Fairburn & Gordon I & II apartments on Fairburn Road was among 43 complexes targeted by local prosecutors in a campaign against persistently dangerous and unhealthy apartments. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

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Fairburn & Gordon I & II apartments on Fairburn Road was among 43 complexes targeted by local prosecutors in a campaign against persistently dangerous and unhealthy apartments. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
By Alan Judd and Willoughby Mariano
July 19, 2022

Prosecutors marked 18 of the complexes as top priority as they devise strategies for attacking the problems and holding landlords accountable. But the list isn’t final, and it doesn’t include numerous other troubled complexes identified by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

ExploreTargeted apartment complexes have long histories of crime, squalor

About the Authors

Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.

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