“This film shows that happy, sad and tragic all co-existed with the people of East Lake Meadows,” documentary filmmaker David McMahon said. “It does not offer a policy prescription. But it is an emotional call to action.”
“In a week, we had 1,500 engagements,” Burns said. “We found hundreds of residents.”
“People never gave enough credit for what it was for people who worked very hard to build a life for themselves, who had people they could depend on when there was no one else who was going to be there,” journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times said in the documentary.East Lake Meadows was constructed in 1970 as a public housing project where mostly white, affluent families lived.
But that changed. Drugs infested the community and bullets flew. Meanwhile, the poorly constructed domiciles eroded. Raw sewage set in the streets. Pests—roaches and rats—were commonplace. Holes in walls were not fixed. Broken cabinets went unrepaired.
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