Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a plan today to steer city policy around affordable housing. Here are the key takeaways.
Nearly 90 homes that are sites of drug offenses will be transformed into housing for police officers.
By Sonam Vashi In Norcross, blink and you’ll miss the extended-stay motels that dot the arteries of Buford Highway and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. But a new survey from a City of Norcross initiative shows that ...
Few words cause as much passion and consternation in Atlanta as "gentrification," but here are three ways it's actually measured.
The Atlanta-based company wants to make it easier and safer for Atlantans to live in rooming houses.
Enterprise Community Partners is this week inviting Atlantans to share their ideas on Facebook on how to fix this problem.
With the grant, AVLF will expand its work in the health realm: curbing instances of asthma in children, which can be caused by substandard living conditions.
As Atlanta loses affordable homes every year, land trusts could help—if they can scale.
Atlanta Housing talks plan, schedule to rebuild previously demolished housing projects as mixed-income communities.
Through the Enterprise Rose Fellowship, one designer will focus on creating affordable housing design in Sylvan Hills and Browns Mill Park.With other fellows at three other locations nationwide, Deborah Pérez Centeno will work with Atlanta ...
By Sonam Vashi More than a dozen organizations will receive microgrants to help revitalize west side neighborhoods through an Atlanta Housing program funded by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department. Fourteen groups working ...
A property management company creates a first-time homeownership program in DeKalb County.
A new Atlanta film focuses on English Avenue and Vine City residents impacted by Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
In Atlanta, Enterprise plans to give up to $10,000 each to nonprofits that have ideas for implementing “scalable housing-based health solutions.”
The second story in our Section 8 mini-series focuses on landlords' common complaints and stereotypes, and one housing authority's efforts to address its landlord shortage.
The first in our mini-series about landlords, source-of-income discrimination, and how Atlanta is responding to the issue.
Atlanta’s affordability crisis may feel extreme to some, but how does it compare to other cities in the Southeast?
The Atlanta Regional Housing Forum celebrated its 30th anniversary this morning with remarks from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Co-LaB, a startup founded by Tamara Coleman, takes the co-living model popular with millennials working in tech and applies it toward providing affordable housing.
The city plans to begin developing 550 new units specifically targeted at permanently housing those who are chronically homeless.
Sonam Vashi
Sonam Vashi is an award-winning freelance journalist in Atlanta writing about affordable housing for Saporta Report. Her reporting, which usually focuses on criminal justice, equity, and the South, has also appeared with CNN, the Washington Post, Atlanta magazine, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others. She is the vice president of the Atlanta chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, and she grew up in Gwinnett County.
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