{"290611":{"#nid":"290611","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Letter to the editor: prof. Mike Dobbins skeptical about BeltLine\u0027s real value","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The park part is great if you live in the project\u0027s northeast quadrant, where over two-thirds of the project\u0027s $360 million have been spent,\u0022 writes Mike Dobbins, professor of practice at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of City and Regional Planning, about the Atlanta BeltLine project. \u0022Elsewhere lower income neighborhoods, mostly African American, have gone through BeltLine-induced speculation, displacement, suffered more during the Great Recession, and continue to struggle,\u0022 he adds. A large reason for this, Dobbins notes, is that \u0022affordable\u0022 housing is defined at 100 percent of area median income (AMI) for homebuyers - which does not allow for new, low-income residents to move to the built-up northeast quadrant.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-04-14 17:43:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:05","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NSSA","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/magazine.planning.org\/publication\/?i=204265","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"471","name":"beltline"},{"id":"5148","name":"mike dobbins"},{"id":"168968","name":"streetcar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}