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Stalled Herndon Square project exposes Atlanta Housing’s shortcomings
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.
Guest Column
Atlanta city jail unsustainable, should be converted to transitional housing
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.
Guest Column
Atlanta’s gentrification, now a challenge, started as sign of city’s spirit of civil rights
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.
Sonam Vashi
City and regional public housing authorities get spotlight at forum
Atlanta Housing talks plan, schedule to rebuild previously demolished housing projects as mixed-income communities.
Sonam Vashi
Design fellow focuses on housing in south side neighborhoods
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.
King Williams
A Conversation with Atlanta City Councilman Andre Dickens
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.
Sonam Vashi
OWN DeKalb launches new affordable homeownership program
A property management company creates a first-time homeownership program in DeKalb County.
Sonam Vashi
The Home Team documentary examines west side promises ahead of Super Bowl
A new Atlanta film focuses on English Avenue and Vine City residents impacted by Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Sonam Vashi
Enterprise funds collaboration between healthcare and affordable housing
In Atlanta, Enterprise plans to give up to $10,000 each to nonprofits that have ideas for implementing “scalable housing-based health solutions.”
Sonam Vashi
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phelan_Court_Apartments,_Midtown_Atlanta_GA.jpgAtlanta’s Section 8 tenants have trouble finding good housing
The first in our mini-series about landlords, source-of-income discrimination, and how Atlanta is responding to the issue.
Sonam Vashi
Report puts Atlanta’s affordability crisis into context
Atlanta’s affordability crisis may feel extreme to some, but how does it compare to other cities in the Southeast?
Sonam Vashi
Housing forum celebrates 30 years
The Atlanta Regional Housing Forum celebrated its 30th anniversary this morning with remarks from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Sonam Vashi
Co-LaB turns co-living into affordable housing
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.
David Pendered
Federal tax credits to provide 650 affordable homes in metro Atlanta by 2020
Georgia has earmarked federal tax credits to provide 650 affordable rental homes in metro Atlanta and they are scheduled to ready for occupancy in late 2020, according to a statement from the Department of Community Affairs on the award of a total of $25 million statewide in federal Housing Tax Credits.
Maria Saporta, ATL Business Chronicle
Atlanta BeltLine starts CEO search, plans for future
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Aug. 10, 2018
The Atlanta BeltLine Inc., in the midst of a transition in leadership, has adopted a new affordable housing strategy and has been actively engaged in acquiring land as well as making sure BeltLine transit remains on the City of Atlanta’s More MARTA plans.
David Pendered
Voters approve affordable housing funding, including program for Ca. farm workers
Georgia is among six states in which voters in the Nov. 6 election approved ballot measures to address housing affordability. Groups to benefit include the mentally disabled, including a program in metro Atlanta that’s supported by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, veterans and, in California, farm workers.
David Pendered
Atlanta misses likely spike in housing costs as Amazon locates headquarters elsewhere
The good news about Atlanta not getting picked for Amazon’s second or third headquarters is that the region doesn’t face the prospect the wsj.com framed in this headline: Amazon’s Move to Long Island City Sparks Condo Frenzy.
David Pendered
For Georgia’s affordable housing advocates, stuff of dreams on Oregon ballot
Voters in Oregon face a ballot initiative Tuesday that represents the stuff of dreams for some advocates of affordable housing in Georgia – a proposal that is to produce more bang for each buck of public investment in homes affordable to those earning the salaries of schoolteachers.
Sonam Vashi
Q+A: Scott Markley on the racial impact of Atlanta’s apartment demolitions
Markley contextualizes the demolitions in the northern suburbs within the region’s long history of residential discrimination.
Maria’s Metro
David Pendered
Oil drilling off Georgia’s coast an issue for Trump’s nominee for Interior secretaryMarch 25, 2019 - 4:57 pm
First an apartment tower, now a senior facility planned on grassy plot near Lenox SquareMarch 24, 2019 - 7:25 pm
Nesting shorebirds protected from predators in pilot program on Georgia’s coastMarch 22, 2019 - 12:21 pm
