The week in local news.
Tag: Affordable housing
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City of Refuge at max-capacity, launches $25 million campaign to expand services
On Wednesday, Nov. 30, the City of Refuge embarked on a $25 million capital campaign to further help individuals and families in crisis.
Posted inAllison Joyner, Latest News
HUD Secretary, AUC officials, meet to discuss student homelessness, housing assistance in metro
Atlanta was the second stop in the “HUD on the Road” tour. By Allison Joyner Yesterday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge met with local Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) representatives to discuss homeownership affordable housing. Dr. David Thomas, President of Morehouse College and others affiliated with the institutions […]
Posted inColumns, John Ruch
A snapshot of Atlanta’s Airbnb listings raises questions about regulation and affordability
By John Ruch Atlanta has a new short-term rental regulation born of concerns about community impacts like party houses. Its enforcement is on hold for similar reasons — just from the industry side, whose multi-property owners might be shut out of the market. Such community anecdotes and interests often drive short-term rental policymaking due to […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Tree-sitting protesters return to training center site, Anti-Gentrification Rally, Juneteenth celebrations
This month, Georgians have one more chance to weigh in on the Democratic and Republican candidates in upcoming state races. Folks looking to submit their ballot should be aware of these key dates: Click here to check out Atlanta Civic Circle’s guide on key voting dates and the candidates going to runoffs. On to other […]
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City and state leaders celebrate Parkside, an all-affordable complex in the Westside
On Wednesday, June 1, community leaders gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate Parkside Apartments, an affordable housing community nestled in the Bankhead/Historic Westin Heights neighborhood. Parkside features 182 units — including one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments — with each unit priced at an affordable rate. In the new building, 57 units are priced at […]
Posted inColumns, John Ruch
Candidate forum on housing affordability another example of what goes unsaid
I’ll admit that I tuned in to a recent Georgia House candidate forum on housing affordability issues not so much to learn about solutions as to confirm why nothing ever really changes.
Posted inSustainable Communities, Thought Leadership
Atlanta’s Affordability Challenge
For the first time in a decade, owning a home in metro Atlanta has become “unaffordable” according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. What does that mean for our region? For years, Atlanta has led the nation in income inequality and lack of economic mobility. In fact, if a person is born into poverty in […]
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Development Authority approves deeper tax break to boost South Fulton affordability
Intent on post-scandal reform and mission-shifting, the Development Authority of Fulton County has approved a new slate of deeper tax breaks aimed at incentivizing more affordable housing in South Fulton.
Posted inColumns
Thank you, and farewell
Something feels right in my departure from SaportaReport coinciding with the return of a Swedish musician to a stage near metro Atlanta.
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Atlanta expands tax breaks for residential projects from blighted areas to citywide
The Atlanta City Council has approved legislation to provide tax breaks to build or preserve workforce housing anywhere in the city, specifically in high-demand areas, rather than only in blighted neighborhoods.
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Chamblee takes steps to address high cost of housing
Chamblee’s housing consultant provided a snapshot Tuesday of housing costs in the city that make obvious the reason Chamblee intends to devise a strategy to induce a supply of dwellings at a range of prices.
Posted inColumns
Reflections of a climate change candidate
By Guest Columnist MANDY MAHONEY. U.S. program director of the Regulatory Assistance Project
The South has long been defined by its heat and humidity, so much so that bragging about the heat has even become something of a punch line in certain circles. … As the global climate warms, extreme heat is growing more common in the South, and that is putting low-income people and communities of color at the highest risk of heat-related illness and even death.
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Norcross racing to quadruple number of public, affording housing units at one site
The Norcross Housing Authority plans to demolish a 1960s-era housing project to build an apartment complex that is to more than quadruple the number of units of public housing, market rate workforce housing and affordable housing units.
Posted inKelly Jordan
Affordable Housing Initiative Announcement – Atlanta First United Methodist Church – Feb. 23, 2022
Read Sean Keenan’s column about the announcement event.
Posted inColumns
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.
Posted inAtlanta Civic Circle
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.
Posted inColumns
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.
