Category: Atlanta Civic Circle

The Atlanta City Council last month approved a measure that paves the way for the city’s public defender office to help prevent evictions, but without proper funding, it’s not enough to prevent the displacement of many city residents affected by the pandemic. The ordinance, authored by City Councilmember Michael Julian Bond, authorizes the Atlanta Public Defender’s […]

Residents of the Southside’s long-neglected Forest Cove apartments will continue living in ramshackle conditions until the property owner can secure financing for the complex’s desperately needed revival. Millennia Housing Management, the national real estate firm that previously managed the property, purchased the “uninhabitable” 396-unit complex in April from Global Ministries Foundation after years of deterioration and neglect. Millennia plans […]

The resurrection of the long-dormant Atlanta Civic Center might finally be on the horizon, as the deadline for developers to submit overhaul proposals rapidly approaches. Once property owner Atlanta Housing’s (AH) board of commissioners sifts through the submissions, due Jan. 28, they will invite developers with the best pitches for the 19-acre, Old Fourth Ward site to […]

Georgia renters and housing activists rallied outside the Buckhead home of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) commissioner on Saturday to call foul on what they consider a dysfunctional emergency rental assistance (ERA) program. For months, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) has decried the DCA’s handling of the hundreds of millions of rental […]

With one of his first pen strokes as Atlanta’s new mayor, Andre Dickens refreshed an executive order from Keisha Lance Bottoms’ administration that bars landlords managing city-funded properties from evicting renters. The order, enacted at the beginning of the pandemic, effects a temporary eviction moratorium for residential properties funded by Atlanta Housing, Atlanta Beltline, Inc., the Fulton […]

A year after City of Atlanta leaders launched a $100 million housing opportunity bond program, an extra-governmental commission of planning and development experts this week teased the idea of scaling the program up to as much as $250 million. In January 2021, the Atlanta City Council approved then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ executive order to issue $50 million […]

The federal government has given the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) the go-ahead to turn over more than $80 million in unspent emergency rental assistance (ERA) funds to higher performing metro-Atlanta governments. The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday approved the DCA’s petition to hand over $80.6 million in unspent funds from the $552.3 million it received one year […]

The creation of Buckhead City could deal a devastating blow to housing affordability across Atlanta and make living in the posh neighborhood even more inaccessible, experts told Atlanta Civic Circle. Supporters of the exodus effort say that’s nonsense. Although the controversial prospect of Buckhead seceding from the City of Atlanta hinges on a series of state […]

Fulton County has processed more than 80% of requests for emergency rental assistance (ERA) since the beginning of August, in stark contrast to the pace at which the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has dealt with its own ERA applications. Between Aug. 2 and Dec. 12, Fulton adjudicated 10,287 of the 12,771 applications submitted by households […]

The desperately needed restoration of the Forest Cove apartment complex could finally be on the horizon, project officials say. For years, residents of the Southside Atlanta community have complained of pests, mold, trash, and crime that have made the property virtually “uninhabitable.” On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Forest Cove’s owner and manager Millennia Housing Management (MHM) told Atlanta Civic Circle that the […]