On Monday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms inked her signature on legislation that green-lights $50 million in bond funding aimed at producing and preserving affordable housing across the city.
Affordable housing could be bound for an area near the Atlanta Beltline — and in Buckhead no less.
By David Pendered Atlanta’s current proposal to promote affordable housing could begin with a review of vacant land that could be developed with dwellings, rather than starting with the premise of allowing a second abode to ...
A rental assistance program launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has helped almost 2,700 families, according to nonprofit Star-C, which kicked off the initiative in April.
The prospect of falling home prices – affordable units or market-based – shows no signs of appearing at the start of 2021. Demand for dwellings exceeds supply, and prices for lumber and labor remain above ...
On Monday, long after HouseATL leaders pitched the idea of architecting a bond program to help beef up the city’s affordable housing stock, Atlanta officials green-lit legislation that paves the way for a $50 million ...
Mortgage debt continues to rise among the nation’s homeowners age 65-plus. More than a quarter of the 80-plus crowd now has mortgage debt, according to findings by the Federal Reserve and Harvard University.
When President Donald Trump begrudgingly scribbled his signature on the $900 million COVID-19 relief package on Sunday, he effectively cast a lifeline to the countless Americans — including many Atlantans — threatened with displacement amid ...
Some Black homeowners do pay higher interest rates on mortgages than non-white Hispanics, but a new report issued by the Atlanta Fed shows the reason isn’t the rule-of-thumb principle that had associated the cause with ...
Paycheck-to-paycheck workers may be especially vulnerable to higher-than-standard power bills after a new rate program for Georgia Power takes effect Jan. 1, 2021, according to the consumer advocacy group Georgia Watch.
At long last, the $100 million housing opportunity bond proposal, which experts believe could actually put a sizable dent in Atlanta’s housing affordability crisis, is headed toward approval by the city council.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson stopped by Atlanta on Tuesday to grant Atlanta Housing (AH) $450,000 in federal funding to help develop a roadmap for the revitalization of parts of ...
Two public housing residents are set to be sworn in as board members of Atlanta’s housing authority.
By Guest Columnist MICK COCHRAN, chairman of the board of First Step Staffing, Inc. 2020 has presented all sorts of challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. The loss of income and wealth creates significant uncertainty and ...
A new initiative aimed at helping people navigate what experts have called a “tsunami” of evictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will ask landlords in metro Atlanta to forgive tenants’ past-due rent in ...
Despite a swirling rumor mill that had Atlantans thinking their mayor could be tapped to be President-elect Joe Biden’s housing and urban development secretary, it appears that Keisha Lance Bottoms will not claim that cabinet ...
The City of Atlanta intends to invest $50 million worth of bonds to help produce and preserve affordable housing, officials announced in a Tuesday press release.
Atlanta’s zoning policies have long been regarded as restrictive by affordable housing advocates and urbanists. Put simply, the city’s zoning code just isn’t very conducive to dense development.
In metro Atlanta, homeowners and renters are living in two completely different financial realities. The coronoavirus pandemic has only widened the divide, according to the latest edition of Harvard University’s annual report, The State of ...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a new initiative on Wednesday that promises to house hundreds of people experiencing homelessness before winter temperatures make sleeping on the streets much more dangerous.
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