Local leaders aren’t oblivious to the gentrifying impacts the Atlanta Beltline has had on the neighborhoods through which it weaves, but the economic side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated a housing crisis that’s for years displaced people from their homes.
Category: Housing Affordability
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Cash from Gulch deal’s affordable housing trust fund allocated toward ‘offsetting rising property taxes’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday announced the first chunk of an affordable housing trust fund spawned from the controversial Gulch redevelopment deal would go toward combating displacement among the city’s longtime residents.
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New Atlanta City Council legislation could combat “equity theft”
A new Atlanta City Council proposal aims to stop predatory investors from swindling longtime Atlantans out of their homes.
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New Westside development adds affordable housing amid supportive services
A new residential development planted just blocks from the Atlanta Beltline’s Westside Trail recently began welcoming its first residents, and more are on the way from nonprofit City of Refuge’s philanthropic programs.
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BREAKING: Atlanta mayor’s housing chief appointed to job at public housing authority
Atlanta’s chief housing officer is soon to claim the vacant chief operations officer seat at the city’s public housing authority, according to sources familiar with the shift.
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OPINION: With sacrifices, Atlanta can offset its staggering affordable housing shortage
These remedies, though, aren’t matters to hold your breath on; public and private leaders need to take action today.
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In new book, AH CEO calls to ‘revamp nation’s housing policy’
Armed with 35 years of experience leading public housing agencies in the United States and Canada, Atlanta Housing CEO Eugene Jones knows politicians — from the local level to the upper echelons of government — don’t focus nearly as much on ensuring their constituents are sheltered as they should.
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Atlanta’s new “renter’s choice” rule could boost housing accessibility
A new City of Atlanta rule could help people hurdle costly barriers separating them from stable housing.
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AH to install billboard atop HQ to raise money for affordable housing, scholarships
Seeking new revenue streams to fund affordable housing creation and scholarship programs, Atlanta Housing (AH) officials are planning to erect a billboard atop the agency’s downtown headquarters.
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Westside’s historic Roosevelt Hall bound for adaptive reuse revival
An aging, vacant building in the Atlanta University Center is headed for a nearly $10 million restoration that’s slated to provide amenities for a mixed-income community being developed nearby.
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After dodging foreclosure, Westside’s London Townhomes bound for $40 million revamp
After helping bail out a decades-old co-op community on the Westside from the threat of foreclosure, a public-private development partnership aims to restore the 200 residences to the tune of $40 million — and the vast majority of them will remain affordable.
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Councilman: $100 million affordable housing bond program needs to spur wealth creation
Snagged by the side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlanta’s much-anticipated housing opportunity bond program could be nearing passage. But some proponents of the initiative say the proposal first needs to be tweaked to foster wealth creation.
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Fulton’s development authority green-lights public assistance for downtown student housing
Fulton County’s development board on Tuesday OK’d a property tax break worth $4.4 million to a developer pitching an $87 million downtown tower that would afford some Georgia State University (GSU) and Atlanta University Center (AUC) students below-market-rate rents.
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Targeted affronts to Atlanta’s lower-income residents spotlighted
Flaunting a more redeeming nickname — “The City Too Busy to Hate” — one might expect more from Atlanta in terms of class parity, as recent news reports have underscored a trend of seemingly targeted discrimination among folks living in the city’s margins.
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The redemptive potential of Old Fourth Ward’s languishing Atlanta Civic Center
Gone are the days of Broadway musicals, concerts, lectures and commencement ceremonies at the historic auditorium. But public officials in Atlanta say the mammoth isn’t down for the count, but rather hibernating, awaiting its potential resurrection as a place to live, work and play.
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New ARC tool tracks eviction filings across metro Atlanta
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) earlier this month debuted a new data analytics tool that could help local leaders track and respond to the eviction crisis spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Could Microsoft development spell trouble for Westside affordability?
The much-anticipated Quarry Yards mixed-use development slated for Atlanta’s Westside appears to be kaput, complicating already intense concerns about the future of affordable living in the area.
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Atlanta Housing board poised to welcome two new commissioners
The Atlanta Housing board of commissioners is poised to welcome two new members, as the terms of Patrina Howard and Robert Rumley III come to a close.
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More affordable houses, apartments bound for Atlanta’s Westside
Hundreds of new homes priced as affordable are headed for Atlanta’s Westside by way of a couple new projects supported by Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm.
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OPINION: Eviction moratoriums simply delay the inevitable, an exacerbated housing crisis
Although eviction moratoriums strive to keep people in their homes while they weather the storm of the novel coronavirus, the hard truth is that such efforts merely delay the inevitable.
