Closer Look with Rose Scott

Death at homeless encampment calls for immediate policy changes


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Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look” focuses on the death of 46-year-old Cornelius Taylor.  He died on Jan.16. According to authorities, Taylor died after being struck by a front-loader while inside a tent in a homeless encampment, along Old Wheat Street in the Auburn Avenue neighborhood, near Ebenezer Baptist Church. Show host Rose Scott talks with housing leaders, the Atlanta-based reporter who has been covering this story, and the victim’s family.

Guests include:

Monica Johnson, organizing director for Housing Justice League

Brad Schweers, executive director for Intown Cares

Cathryn Vassell, CEO for Partners for HOME

George Chidi, an Atlanta-based journalist and writer of "The Atlanta Objective"

Mawuli Davis, of the Davis Bozeman Johnson Law

Darlene Chaney and Derek Chaney, Cornelius Taylor’s siblings

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