A luxury apartment project planned in Buckhead recently earned nearly $3.5 million in tax incentives, which has some local leaders scratching their heads.
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Murphy Crossing neighbors demand transparency during sale of Beltline-adjacent property
What could become of Murphy Crossing, the 20-acre Southwest Atlanta property neighboring the Beltline’s Westside Trail, is anyone’s guess. But neighbors of the potential redevelopment site—residents of Oakland City, Adair Park, and Capitol View—want to ensure whatever happens there gels with the surrounding culture and doesn’t spur mass displacement.
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Atlanta, Fulton County leaders want YOU to help imagine ‘fair housing’ plans
The City of Atlanta and Fulton County are calling on residents to help them update their strategy for fostering “fair housing” practices.
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Experts talk gaps, opportunities in metro Atlanta’s affordable housing methods
The problems are clear: Atlanta’s affordable housing stock is waning and being replaced with increasingly expensive developments, and the cost of living is rising while income inequality is becoming more extreme. Identifying the best possible solutions, though, depends on who you ask.
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Chicago’s Eugene Jones tapped as next CEO of Atlanta’s housing authority
The Atlanta Housing board of commissioners elected Tuesday afternoon to tap Chicago’s Eugene Jones as its next chief executive officer.
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The ins and outs of the $50 million Home First supportive housing initiative
Atlanta’s $50 million Home First program—now fully funded, thanks to a $114,000 gift from Ameris Bank—endeavors to create 550 much-needed units of permanent supportive housing for the city’s chronically homeless and other marginalized people.
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Blocks from Beltline’s Westside Trail, affordable housing complex soon to debut
By Sean Keenan Just a stone’s throw from the northern reaches of the Beltline’s Westside Trail, a 47-unit affordable housing complex is a just few months from completion. This modest investment won’t fix all the affordability issues in a city oft-considered the U.S. capital of income inequality, but it at least moves the needle in […]
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Could ‘100 Great Ideas’ help Atlanta shed its affordable housing crisis?
Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to vanquish Atlanta’s daunting affordable housing crisis. Housing affordability — in Atlanta and many other major cities — is a complicated issue, and there are countless methods that municipal governments have tried to curb the problem.
