
'Hotlanta' is even more sweltering in these neighborhoods due to a racist 20th-century policy
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During extreme heat events, a few city blocks can mean the difference between a manageable 80-degree afternoon or a sweltering, 100-degree sweat fest.
"The windows are painted shut," Scott said. "We come outside at night to sleep because it's too hot inside."
Like Scott, residents in the low-income communities across south and southwest Atlanta are struggling to cope with the hottest summer since the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.
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