By Sonam Vashi In Norcross, blink and you’ll miss the extended-stay motels that dot the arteries of Buford Highway and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. But a new survey from a City of Norcross initiative shows that those motels provide long-term homes for many of the city’s residents, outlining rising costs of housing and systemic barriers that […]
Workforce rent for a two-bedroom apartment would come to $1,347 per month, versus $3,108 at market rate.
Few words cause as much passion and consternation in Atlanta as “gentrification,” but here are three ways it’s actually measured.
Thank General Motors the next time a pedestrian gets ticketed for jaywalking. Thank a civic effort for showing how to create a pleasant community on the social ashes of a hamlet in New York. Armchair urban planners can consider these topics and more via podcasts of Georgia Tech’s recently concluded seminar, Redesigning Cities.
Longtime Atlanta business leader – Cecil Phillips – has a solution to the city’s affordable housing crisis. Modular housing.Make no mistake. This is not your grandfather’s mobile home. The modular homes being proposed and developed by Phillips match the quality and amenities of new home construction – except they can be built much more quickly and cost significantly less money.
Enterprise Community Partners is this week inviting Atlantans to share their ideas on Facebook on how to fix this problem.
The saga of the redevelopment of Herndon Homes is multi-layered and complex. In multiple interviews with people familiar with the project – one truth is apparent. Promises were made to the community. And promises were broken.
By Guest Columnist JOE BEASLEY, a human rights activist in Atlanta and founder of the Joe Beasley Foundation
The taxpayers of Atlanta are losing over $30 million annually trying to maintain the Atlanta City Detention Center. We must ask whether that remains a good investment and, if not, how to create something that would be worthy of our great city and its historic legacy. I believe we need to strive for more.
By Guest Columnist HATTIE DORSEY, civic volunteer, founder and retired president of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership
Gentrification is a word used to describe what happens with housing development patterns in cities, particularly in the North, Midwest and West Coast cities, when neighborhoods change by race and by income. It was not a pattern that happened in the South, because housing in this region was segregated by race even years after the civil rights movement.
Atlanta Housing talks plan, schedule to rebuild previously demolished housing projects as mixed-income communities.
Through the Enterprise Rose Fellowship, one designer will focus on creating affordable housing design in Sylvan Hills and Browns Mill Park.With other fellows at three other locations nationwide, Deborah Pérez Centeno will work with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity to design affordable housing and engage the surrounding neighborhoods.
Andre Dickens is the Post-3 At-Large, Atlanta City Councilman, who has been in office since 2013. Andre Dickens has been one of the few councilmen to be outspoken on issues of gentrification and housing affordability.
A property management company creates a first-time homeownership program in DeKalb County.
A new Atlanta film focuses on English Avenue and Vine City residents impacted by Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
In Atlanta, Enterprise plans to give up to $10,000 each to nonprofits that have ideas for implementing “scalable housing-based health solutions.”
The first in our mini-series about landlords, source-of-income discrimination, and how Atlanta is responding to the issue.
Atlanta’s affordability crisis may feel extreme to some, but how does it compare to other cities in the Southeast?
The Atlanta Regional Housing Forum celebrated its 30th anniversary this morning with remarks from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Co-LaB, a startup founded by Tamara Coleman, takes the co-living model popular with millennials working in tech and applies it toward providing affordable housing.
Seven months after Hurricane Michael, major federal relief funding nears approvalMay 24, 2019 - 2:44 pm
Transit funding bill could mean money for region; passage seems iffy, at bestMay 23, 2019 - 8:14 pm
Fulton Fresh Mobile Market to begin; reminds food deserts exist throughout FultonMay 22, 2019 - 9:36 pm
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