The need is huge: about 75,000 households are on the waiting list for assistance from the city’s public housing authority.
Tag: Affordable housing
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At BeltLine quarterly briefing, affordability dominates
Even as housing affordability gets a lot of attention, the market forces that have been bearing down on the westside for years already are mighty.
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Fulton County DA restarts effort to turn ‘drug houses’ into affordable housing
Nearly 90 homes that are sites of drug offenses will be transformed into housing for police officers.
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Norcross motels house some residents for years, report says
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 […]
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Construction starts for new housing — with some rent discounts and public subsidies — atop Downtown parking deck
Workforce rent for a two-bedroom apartment would come to $1,347 per month, versus $3,108 at market rate.
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How do researchers measure gentrification?
Few words cause as much passion and consternation in Atlanta as “gentrification,” but here are three ways it’s actually measured.
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The odd origin of jaywalking: Exploring mobility and other urban affairs
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.
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Modular homes can help solve Atlanta’s housing affordability crisis
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.
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What are your ideas to improve housing affordability in Atlanta?
Enterprise Community Partners is this week inviting Atlantans to share their ideas on Facebook on how to fix this problem.
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Atlanta’s home prices are soaring. Can a new model keep some affordable forever?
As Atlanta loses affordable homes every year, land trusts could help—if they can scale.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OWN DeKalb launches new affordable homeownership program
A property management company creates a first-time homeownership program in DeKalb County.
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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.
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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.”
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Atlanta’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.
