Category: Sustainable Communities

Last year Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) launched an unprecedented project to develop or preserve 2,000 affordable apartment units and single-family homes by 2025. The organization’s project is part of its commitment to closing the homeownership and wealth gap, as well as addressing rental affordability in metro Atlanta. With less than a year of […]

RangeWater Co-Founder Marc Pollack Begins Two-Year Term Leading the District Council  Urban Land Institute (ULI) leader Marc Pollack, co-founder of RangeWater Real Estate – formerly, Pollack Shores Real Estate Group, has been selected as the new Chair-elect of ULI Atlanta, a vital role for delivering the Institute’s mission in the Atlanta metropolitan region, where it […]

By Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta No one will ever say that 2020 “zoomed by,” but as we look back at our year together, it turns out it did. In 2020, ULI Atlanta members and staff spent 1.9 million minutes – nearly 32,000 hours – across 11,000+ individual logins on Zoom meetings and social activities. […]

In February, the U.S. Department of Treasury began implementing The Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, $25 billion to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The funds are provided directly to States.  Those seeking funds must meet Federally mandated eligibility requirements. Georgia’s allocation is $710 million – $552 million […]

By Aleemah Ali  Aleemah Ali, our 2020 Charles Jordan Intern, was inspired to launch the Community Art Project after researching how parks can benefit urban communities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her project combines community engagement and creative expression to safely draw the community outdoors into two Parks with Purpose in Atlanta. Her internship might be over, but […]

By: Colleen McNally, The Wilbert Group We spoke with Sharon about navigating the legal side of complex land deals, her new role as Chair of the Livable Communities Council and the unique ways she serves as a steward of her own neighborhood. They say home is where the heart is. Growing up in a little […]

Republic Services Charitable Foundation announces $105,000 grant to support critical repairs to locally owned Westside businesses The Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) has received a grant from the Republic Services Charitable Foundation to support the revitalization of locally owned small businesses disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $105,000 grant is part of Republic Services’ Committed […]

By Alex Heaton, ULI Atlanta Member and Project Manager on the Technical Assistance Panel Project The Fulton County Executive Airport (Airport) occupies 985 acres on the industrial corridor located along Fulton Industrial Boulevard (FIB corridor) and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Bookended by recent and significant investments by companies such as Amazon and UPS, the […]

The forgotten forest long known as Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve stands to become one of  Atlanta’s largest public parks, an archaeological treasure trove, and a model for urban forestland  preservation  The original version of this article was published by Atlanta Magazine on December 30, 2020 and can be found here. By Josh Green One Saturday […]

By: Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta If knowledge is power, or so the saying goes – then HouseATL’s charge to ‘demystify affordable housing’ has never been more important. In the midst of a global pandemic, there should be no doubt left that safe, stable, and affordable housing is bedrock to our communities. The power of […]

At the December Housing Forum, we were reminded that the Atlanta region is segregated with a history of racist housing policies and practices. As we learned from a mapping presentation from Mike Carnathan of the Atlanta Regional Commission, this isn’t ancient history — “segregation’s role in the systems of metro Atlanta lead us today to […]

We spoke with Dixon about his Atlanta roots, his pivot from tech startups to real estate, his mission to uplift some of Atlanta’s historically disinvested communities, and how he approaches life one day at a time. From a young age, Joel Dixon learned the grass is greener where people water it. The Atlanta native was […]

For many, the events of 2020 have spurred a long-needed national awakening on issues of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism.  One needs to look no further than the history of American housing policy to witness the terrible impacts of systemic racism. How did decades of misbegotten policy, attitudes, and actions create concentrated poverty, cripple transportation […]

By Shannon Lee For the past two decades, The Conservation Fund has protected and enhanced public natural lands here in Atlanta. Like you, we live, work, and play in and around the metro area. Now more than ever, we need time outside to reconnect with nature and recharge our spirits. But we also want to […]

By ULI’s Atlanta Community Schoolyards Project Team When Atlanta Community Schoolyards launched its pilot project with ULI Atlanta, the Trust for Public Land, Park Pride, and Atlanta Public Schools in early 2019, the idea of a global pandemic halting daily activity and life was not in our national vernacular. Since the shutdown of March 2020, […]

By ANDPI For many, the events of 2020 have spurred a long-needed national awakening on issues of inequity, injustice and systemic racism.  One need look no further than the history of American housing policy to see systemic racism in action. The next Atlanta Regional Housing Forum will feature an overview of discriminatory housing policy through […]