The American Dream by any definition includes the belief that one can work hard and achieve financial success. This aspiration is most often connected with the dream of homeownership. For the majority of low- and ...

By Karen Hatcher, CPM The housing market is hot, and sellers are realizing considerable increases in property values. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s latest Home Ownership Affordability Monitor, Metro Atlanta is no longer affordable. Historically low ...

For more than five years, statistics make clear the depth of the housing affordability crisis in our region– historically low housing stock; soaring housing costs for renters and homeowners; increasing numbers of cost-burdened residents; a ...

A recent research publication jointly produced by the Center for Community Progress, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession, ...

Expanding Housing Choice: How residential zoning reform can improve equitable access to affordable housing and economic opportunity Single-family residential zoning first began in 1916 as an effort to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods. The ...

How residential zoning reform can improve equitable access to affordable housing and economic opportunity Single-family residential zoning first began in 1916 as an effort to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods. The US Supreme Court’s ...

By George Burgan, ANDP and Rachael Dempsey, HGF Healthcare Georgia Foundation is working with ANDP to address health and housing disparities across Georgia According to the National Center for Healthy Housing, 40 percent of U.S. ...

The COVID-19 crisis disrupted lives and livelihoods in ways not seen in nearly a century. Middle- and upper-income families can often sustain themselves during temporary disruptions, but the pandemic has meant disaster on several levels ...

Last year Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) launched an unprecedented project to develop or preserve 2,000 affordable apartment units and single-family homes by 2025. The organization’s project is part of its commitment to closing ...

In February, the U.S. Department of Treasury began implementing The Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, $25 billion to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The funds ...

Republic Services Charitable Foundation announces $105,000 grant to support critical repairs to locally owned Westside businesses The Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) has received a grant from the Republic Services Charitable Foundation to support ...

At the December Housing Forum, we were reminded that the Atlanta region is segregated with a history of racist housing policies and practices. As we learned from a mapping presentation from Mike Carnathan of the ...

For many, the events of 2020 have spurred a long-needed national awakening on issues of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism.  One needs to look no further than the history of American housing policy to witness ...

By ANDPI For many, the events of 2020 have spurred a long-needed national awakening on issues of inequity, injustice and systemic racism.  One need look no further than the history of American housing policy to ...

By George Burgan, ANDP Prior to the onset of the pandemic, spiking rental rates had become an increasingly insurmountable obstacle for low-income families. In the last decade, rents in our region have increased by 65%, compared to ...

By Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc., (ANDPI) NeighborWorks® America, the nation’s leading network of nonprofit community development organizations, is set to release its expanded annual housing and financial capability survey on Thursday, July 16. The ...

Featured Image: A food and supply pantry at Reynoldstown Senior Residences was restocked recently with donations from Reynoldstown neighbors. By James Alexander, President, Mercy Housing Southeast Unstable is a word I am hearing a lot ...