Read Sean Keenan’s column about the announcement event.
Tag: Affordable housing
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Give Mayor Andre Dickens freedom to name his team to Atlanta Housing’s board
It’s time to get out of the lawsuit business. So proclaimed several board members of the Atlanta Housing authority at a specially-called (virtual) meeting on Feb. 16 when the board approved a settlement agreement with the Integral Group and its development partners over 88 acres of land next to four mixed-income projects.
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State agency turns over $80 million in unspent rental assistance funds to metro Atlanta counties with thousands of applicants
By Sean Keenan for Atlanta Civic Circle The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has released $80.6 million in federal rental assistance funds to five metro Atlanta counties — Fulton, DeKalb, Henry, Clayton, and Hall — that have already spent their own federal funds to help tenants facing eviction, with thousands more seeking aid. Fulton […]
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Tip line for wronged lovers, other efforts to increase public safety in South Fulton
A tip line to tattle on an ex lover who ‘done wrong’ and a housing allowance for police and fire personnel are two of the City of South Fulton’s latest innovations to improve public safety.
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Atlanta’s break-the-mold affordable housing project may become model for future
Atlanta’s latest affordable housing development is the first of its kind in the city, a potential model for a new generation of public/private efforts to address the housing shortage.
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Understanding the housing affordability problem
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner
Over the last couple of years, housing costs have shot up in Atlanta. Already rising before, it is now difficult for households earning below median incomes to find decent housing in a stable neighborhood. Rentals are outpacing homeowners in the market, spawning more build-to-rent activity.
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Getting affordable housing right – a beige paper*
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner Need: A place to call home for all of Atlanta’s people Purpose: Understanding what it takes to fulfill that need * Beige, because this paper is more suggestive than authoritative, more “of color,” inviting comment, not a “white” paper, thus […]
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New Atlanta City Council faces tree protection, waste fees, housing density, more
The incoming Atlanta City Council is to face two thorny issues the past council voted in December to punt to the city’s new leadership: Tree protection and solid waste fees.
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Atlanta’s pioneering construction and demolition of public housing the focus of markers, exhibit
Atlanta has played a key role in America’s history of affordable housing: It was the city that pioneered federally funded public housing complexes – and also was the first to demolish them all.
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Alex Garvin: Urban planner whose 2004 study shapes Atlanta BeltLine
Alex Garvin died last week as an advocate of two issues shaping Atlanta – the Atlanta BeltLine and efforts to ease the shortage of housing.
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Atlanta must rise to the challenge of becoming the next superstar city
By Guest Columnist BRIAN McGOWAN, president of the The Centennial Yards Co.
Returning to Atlanta after spending nearly three years in the Pacific Northwest, I see a city now facing the similar opportunities and challenges Seattle encountered on its journey to becoming a top market for tech talent and employers.
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Metro Atlanta house prices up 21.2 percent in past year; investors flood market
Metro Atlanta’s housing market shows trends including these two: Prices are up sharply over the past year, and institutional investors are buying or building dwellings to put into the rental trade, according to the Atlanta Fed’s Beige Book, released Wednesday.
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How wealth is extracted from lower income folks, other quirks of ‘new’ economy
Renters take a double whammy – they don’t build home equity, and their on-time rent payments don’t get reported to credit agencies to help build their credit score.
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Fulton County’s development authority subsidizes workforce housing in Atlanta
Fulton County’s development authority received a green light Wednesday from Fulton County commissioners to proceed with financing of an apartment complex in Atlanta.
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Atlanta City Council reins in proposed long-range growth plan
Atlanta on Tuesday advanced an amended long-range development plan that eliminates major objections raised by residents and instructs city planners to abide by state rules on community involvement in future planning.
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150 neighborhoods say Atlanta’s proposed long-range development plan is unlawful
In 2016, a consultant in Arizona submitted to Atlanta’s planning department the population forecast that is driving Atlanta’s proposal to retool the city to house an additional 700,000 residents by 2050.
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Atlanta’s plan to boost density stalls in council; Mayor’s team doesn’t reveal intents
Atlanta will take a month to reconsider a controversial proposal to boost residential density in traditional neighborhoods. In addition, the plan drew significant challenge Tuesday from two ranking members of Atlanta City Council.
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Atlanta’s proposal offers false hopes for housing affordability, breaks from ‘Atlanta City Design’
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner
Stop, look and listen. Atlanta’s misguided densification planning and zoning strategy is barreling down the tracks. It has many negatives – it will exacerbate the housing affordability crisis, destabilize neighborhoods and gut the NPUs ability to shape their neighborhood’s future.
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Remaking Atlanta: Concerns arise to city’s long-range plan for growth
Atlanta’s proposal to change social dynamics and housing prices in neighborhoods with single-family houses faces a rising number of challenges in the final days of debate.
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For-sale residences in metro Atlanta affordable under HUD guidelines: Atlanta Fed
The purchase price of a residence is deemed affordable under federal guidelines in all but two metro Atlanta counties, according to a new report from the Atlanta Fed.
