By: Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Senior Director, ULI Atlanta Today Atlantans will cast their vote for the City’s next Mayor. In total, 14 candidates are running – all with a shared passion to enhance the future of ...
By Olivia Chatman, Program Associate – Food Initiatives, Reinvestment Fund Across the country, the shameful reality of limited access to healthy food plagues historically marginalized communities. It is an issue that is rooted in discriminatory ...
By now we know that historic (and nearly always intentional) disinvestment and extraction in communities of color has driven a dramatic gap in wealth and ownership by race. This disparity means people of color face ...
By The Wilbert Group We spoke with Sheba about what fuels her passion for architecture, her multi-cultural heritage, and her involvement in ULI beginning with YLG to chairing this year’s Center for Leadership Designing more ...
By Khaliff Davis, Director K-12 Lending, Reinvestment Fund Since its inception, the community development financial institution industry has been committed to providing capital to help expand opportunity for historically excluded communities. In recent years, the ...
By Laurie Schoeman, Sr. Program Director and Sara Haas, Director, Enterprise Community Partners According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, seven of Atlanta’s 10 hottest years have taken place in the past decade. In ...
By: Malory Atkinson (Shear Structural) and Delilah Wynn-Brown (HJ Russell & Company) In real estate terms, the pandemic has been called “the great accelerant”, accelerating trends already underway leading up to 2020. Whether it was ...
Access to quality and affordable homes is critical to building sustainable, healthy communities. Through our lending and research practices, Reinvestment Fund is committed to increasing access to housing that is affordable and safe for all ...
By Kandice Mitchell, Director of State & Local Policy, Southeast, Enterprise Community Partners In December 2020, the City of Atlanta introduced Atlanta City Design: Housing, a framework that guides urban planning through a set of ...
Expanding Housing Choice: How residential zoning reform can improve equitable access to affordable housing and economic opportunity Single-family residential zoning first began in 1916 as an effort to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods. The ...
Christina Szczepanski, Managing Director, Southeast, Reinvestment Fund For decades, historically excluded communities in neighborhoods across America have lived with the consequences of the development process happening to them and not with them. Oftentimes projects are ...
By Tim Block, Sr. Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners When you think of faith-based organizations (FBOs) like churches, synagogues, or temples, you probably think of how they provide spiritual connection and a sense of community ...
ULI Atlanta is so pleased to share the appointment of three members to significant leadership positions in the Americas and globally for the Urban Land Institute. All three of these individuals have provided remarkable leadership ...
How residential zoning reform can improve equitable access to affordable housing and economic opportunity Single-family residential zoning first began in 1916 as an effort to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods. The US Supreme Court’s ...
By Yonina Gray, Director of External Relations, Reinvestment Fund A new report by the Othering and Belonging Institute finds that 81% of US metro regions are more segregated today than they were twenty years ago. ...
By Sara Haas, Director, Southeast Market, Enterprise Community Partners Columbia at Capitol View in Adair Park has ample green space, sits along the Atlanta BeltLine Westside Trail, and provides quality, affordable housing to the residents ...
The unofficial theme of the ULI Atlanta Center for Leadership (CFL) Class of 2021 was rising to the moment and finding new pathways to connect, collaborate and conduct “business as usual” when the world was anything ...
By George Burgan, ANDP and Rachael Dempsey, HGF Healthcare Georgia Foundation is working with ANDP to address health and housing disparities across Georgia According to the National Center for Healthy Housing, 40 percent of U.S. ...
Robert Cox and Khaliff Davis, Reinvestment Fund An affordable home in a healthy neighborhood is fundamental to safety, stability, and opportunity. Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) like Reinvestment Fund play a vital role in using ...
By Kandice Allen Mitchell, Esq. Southeast Policy Director, Enterprise Community Partners Last month, President Biden introduced the American Jobs Plan, calling for an investment of more than $2 trillion for the nation’s infrastructure. Notably, this proposal ...
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