When President Donald Trump begrudgingly scribbled his signature on the $900 million COVID-19 relief package on Sunday, he effectively cast a lifeline to the countless Americans — including many Atlantans — threatened with displacement amid the nearly year-long pandemic.
Category: Housing Affordability
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Atlanta’s $100M affordable housing bond proposal inches toward realization
At long last, the $100 million housing opportunity bond proposal, which experts believe could actually put a sizable dent in Atlanta’s housing affordability crisis, is headed toward approval by the city council.
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HUD boss bestows $450K planning grant for Westside Atlanta redevelopment
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson stopped by Atlanta on Tuesday to grant Atlanta Housing (AH) $450,000 in federal funding to help develop a roadmap for the revitalization of parts of Atlanta’s Westside.
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Mayor appoints AH residents to housing authority’s board of commissioners
Two public housing residents are set to be sworn in as board members of Atlanta’s housing authority.
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Eviction prevention program calls on metro Atlanta landlords to forgive back rent
A new initiative aimed at helping people navigate what experts have called a “tsunami” of evictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will ask landlords in metro Atlanta to forgive tenants’ past-due rent in exchange for financial support.
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It looks like Mayor Bottoms won’t become HUD secretary
Despite a swirling rumor mill that had Atlantans thinking their mayor could be tapped to be President-elect Joe Biden’s housing and urban development secretary, it appears that Keisha Lance Bottoms will not claim that cabinet post.
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City to invest $50 million in bonds to support affordable housing creation, protection
The City of Atlanta intends to invest $50 million worth of bonds to help produce and preserve affordable housing, officials announced in a Tuesday press release.
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City initiative aims to address housing affordability through zoning reform
Atlanta’s zoning policies have long been regarded as restrictive by affordable housing advocates and urbanists. Put simply, the city’s zoning code just isn’t very conducive to dense development.
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Faced with a time crunch, city could cut COVID-19 housing fund in half
City officials could cut the $22 million COVID-19 housing assistance program in half, Atlanta’s chief operating officer Jon Keen announced on Tuesday.
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New grant aims to keep Atlantans threatened by eviction housed
A $400,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation could help a legal services organization protect Atlantans from eviction amid the pandemic.
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As temperatures drop, city officials to open emergency warming center near downtown
With temperatures creeping toward freezing, the City of Atlanta plans to open an emergency warming center in Summerhill on Monday evening.
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With CARES Act help, Atlanta aims to house hundreds of homeless in apartments
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a new initiative on Wednesday that promises to house hundreds of people experiencing homelessness before winter temperatures make sleeping on the streets much more dangerous.
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Initiative aims to help young mothers find housing after homelessness
An elderly widow who’s for years lived in a shed on Atlanta’s Westside is soon to become a “grandmotherly figure” at a new home where young mothers will come to take refuge from life on the streets, according to MicroLife Institute executive director Will Johnston.
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Atlanta City Council extends building moratorium for city’s Westside
The Atlanta City Council on Monday elected to extend a freeze on building permits in the areas around the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry.
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New initiative aims to produce 2,000 affordable homes by 2025
This week, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP) launched an ambitious initiative aimed at building and preserving 2,000 affordable homes by 2025.
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Ponce City Market’s proposed expansion promises new residences at “accessible price points”
Old Fourth Ward’s mixed-use mammoth Ponce City Market is bound for a major expansion, including more than 400 new residences that are supposed to have “accessible price points.”
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Affordable housing was already in jeopardy at Westside site before Microsoft’s purchase
Back in February, the firm plotting the redevelopment of a nearly 70-acre swath of land neighboring the Westside’s Bellwood Quarry suddenly stopped discussing plans for affordable housing with the City of Atlanta.
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Predatory real estate investors could be fined or jailed under new city rule
Predatory real estate investors in Atlanta have been put on notice: If they badger people about selling their homes, especially if those homeowners don’t want to, they could be fined or locked up.
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How Georgia’s U.S. Senate and Congressional candidates plan to address the looming eviction crisis
With Election Day on the other side of this coming weekend, Georgians have precious little time to figure out who they’re going to pick to lead the local, state and federal governments.
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City proposal to help homeowners with property tax hikes moves forward
Some longtime Atlanta homeowners who fear spiking property taxes could price them out of their communities just got a bit closer to finding solace and housing security.
