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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has outlined plans to use eminent domain to take control of a large homeless shelter he says has become a hub for tuberculosis.
Multiple media outlets report that Reed, speaking at the Commerce Club on Tuesday, said the city would build a police and fire station in place of the shelter on Peachtree Street and Pine Street, north of downtown.
Reed says that according to data he received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57 percent of all reported cases in the U.S. of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis have occurred in Fulton County.
Anita Beaty, head of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, says everyone who enters the shelter gets tested for tuberculosis. She pledged to fight any attempts to seize the property.
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