Atlanta Housing (AH) and Food Well Alliance (FWA) are partnering to establish an innovative farm, garden and orchard demonstration site integrated with mixed-income housing at the currently undeveloped Leila Valley Apartments (2400 Leila Lane) located in southeast Atlanta. Completed in 1970 and once home to 175 public housing units, Leila Valley is now a vacant space with an opportunity to grow and distribute food, educate new and beginning growers, expand partnership and improve the biodiversity of the site, and engage the community to create a vision for a new and innovative housing-farm development. The collaboration between AH and FWA represents a reimagination of how vacant land can be used in a way that is more equitable for the community and that offers a more holistic approach to housing.
Atlanta Housing (AH) and Food Well Alliance (FWA) are partnering to establish an innovative farm, garden and orchard demonstration site integrated with mixed-income housing at the currently undeveloped Leila Valley Apartments (2400 Leila Lane) located in southeast Atlanta. Completed in 1970 and once home to 175 public housing units, Leila Valley is now a vacant space with an opportunity to grow and distribute food, educate new and beginning growers, expand partnership and improve the biodiversity of the site, and engage the community to create a vision for a new and innovative housing-farm development. The collaboration between AH and FWA represents a reimagination of how vacant land can be used in a way that is more equitable for the community and that offers a more holistic approach to housing.
