The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation is tackling a timely topic in Atlanta—rapid gentrification and the effects on housing costs and neighborhoods—for its fourth annual AVLF at the Movies event on Sept. 19.
AVLF will screen “Class Divide,” a documentary looking at the effects of hypergentrification in New York’s West Chelsea neighborhood fueled by the opening of the High Line, a wildly popular public park on the site of an old railroad track. The High Line transformed “a once-gritty area into the hottest neighborhood in NYC’s high-end real-estate market,” according to HBO publicity materials, causing rents for Chelsea apartments to spike.
