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 Atlanta Regional Commission, this isn’t ancient history — “segregation’s role in the systems of metro Atlanta lead us today to […]
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Housing Forum: History of Systemic Racism and Segregation in Housing Policy
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 the terrible impacts of systemic racism. How did decades of misbegotten policy, attitudes, and actions create concentrated poverty, cripple transportation […]
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December Housing Forum to focus on history of housing segregation
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 see systemic racism in action. The next Atlanta Regional Housing Forum will feature an overview of discriminatory housing policy through […]
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New Eviction Fund and Tracker Announced at Housing Forum
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 a national average increase of 36%. Nearly half of all households in the City of Atlanta and nearly one in three households […]
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NeighborWorks America to release 2020 Housing Affordability and Financial Capability Survey
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 2019 survey found that vast majority of Americans say owning a home increases financial stability, but when it comes to […]
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Metro Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Sector: COVID-19 Impact & Response
By ANDPI Just as a chorus of voices had begun to move the needle on new resources for affordable housing in our region, the COVID-19 pandemic has blunted our momentum. Unlike the housing and financial crisis that became the Great Recession, this situation unfolded very quickly. Will recovery come as quickly? How are housing credit […]
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Program-Enriched Housing Adapting to Meet the Challenge
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 these days from family and friends. It feels we are one bad headline, week, or month, away from losing […]
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In uncertain times, support the front lines
By George Burgan, ANDPI “You must never so much think as whether you like it or not whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.” — Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross It is rare that all of humanity faces a new […]
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Atlanta Regional Housing Forum: This Our Time: New People, New Tools, and New Funding
By ANDPI Will 2020 be a tipping point for opportunities to impact the supply of affordable housing in metro Atlanta? Despite the near-universal agreement that housing affordability is reaching a crisis point, the region has a growing deficit of more than 300,000 affordable units. But an emerging alignment of public and private sector partnerships is […]
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Historic Atlanta Church Seeks to Use Transfer of Development Rights to Expand Community Services
By: Gary A. Cornell, FAICP Organizations thinking about how to best use their land to better achieve their goals is a very common practice. What may be less commonplace is a concept of monetizing development rights to serve organizational priorities. This mechanism, transfer of development rights (TDR), may be a familiar term from an historic […]
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A Strategic, Regional Approach to Addressing Metro Atlanta’s Housing Challenges
By ANDP We all know the trend lines: Housing costs are rising much faster than wages, housing supply isn’t keeping up with population growth, and the number of affordable housing units is shrinking at an alarming rate. Local communities across the region are in differing stages of dealing with their housing challenges, but it’s clearly […]
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Closing the Homeownership Gap in Metro Atlanta and Beyond
The racial wealth gap has been growing over the past five decades and has reached the point where white households hold more than ten times the wealth of black households. The homeownership gap between black and white families is 30 percent. This continued disparity in wealth is of growing concern, and notably growing as black […]
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Save the Date: Closing the Homeownership Gap in Metro Atlanta and Beyond
The racial wealth gap has been growing over the past five decades, and has reached the point where white households hold more than ten times the wealth of black households. This continued disparity in wealth is of growing concern, and notably growing as black households continue to slip further behind in critical measures for wealth […]
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Help for Post-9/11 Veterans Struggling with Homeownership
By George S. Burgan, Senior Director of Communications & Technology, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. According to the 2018 report The Housing Affordability Struggle of 21st Century Veterans, post-9/11 service members struggle to achieve homeownership at the level of older veterans and have a lower homeownership rate than civilians in general. While veterans from Korea to […]
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Partnering to Preserve Affordability
Atlanta is losing its status as an affordable city. Insight from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Enterprise Community Partners have shown that our region lost more than 5,000 low-cost rental units from 2010 to 2014 and that we are poised to lose tens of thousands more due to expiring subsidies. With two recently financed projects, the ANDP […]
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Fifteen Projects Awarded at EarthCraft’s Annual Celebration of Excellence
By Dayna Thompson, SouthfaceOn Thursday, October 19, Southface welcomed attendees for EarthCraft’s annual Celebration of Excellence. The Celebration recognizes projects, teams, builders, contractors and organizations that have excelled in their commitment to the EarthCraft program. A leader in sustainable building practices, EarthCraft delivers high performance and improved comfort to families, tenants and business owners across […]
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Increasing Opportunities for Children and Families in Southwest Atlanta
The Annie E. Casey Foundation We have a saying around the Annie E. Casey Foundation that kids do well when their families do well, and families do well when they live in supportive neighborhoods with strong community-based services, good jobs, affordable homes and high-quality schools. But for too many children in Atlanta, particularly children of […]
