By ANDPI Just as a chorus of voices had begun to move the needle on new resources for affordable housing in our region, the COVID-19 pandemic has blunted our momentum. Unlike the housing and financial crisis that became the Great Recession, this situation unfolded very quickly. Will recovery come as quickly? How are housing credit […]
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In uncertain times, support the front lines
By George Burgan, ANDPI “You must never so much think as whether you like it or not whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.” — Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross It is rare that all of humanity faces a new […]
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Atlanta Regional Housing Forum: This Our Time: New People, New Tools, and New Funding
By ANDPI Will 2020 be a tipping point for opportunities to impact the supply of affordable housing in metro Atlanta? Despite the near-universal agreement that housing affordability is reaching a crisis point, the region has a growing deficit of more than 300,000 affordable units. But an emerging alignment of public and private sector partnerships is […]
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Historic Atlanta Church Seeks to Use Transfer of Development Rights to Expand Community Services
By: Gary A. Cornell, FAICP Organizations thinking about how to best use their land to better achieve their goals is a very common practice. What may be less commonplace is a concept of monetizing development rights to serve organizational priorities. This mechanism, transfer of development rights (TDR), may be a familiar term from an historic […]
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A Strategic, Regional Approach to Addressing Metro Atlanta’s Housing Challenges
By ANDP We all know the trend lines: Housing costs are rising much faster than wages, housing supply isn’t keeping up with population growth, and the number of affordable housing units is shrinking at an alarming rate. Local communities across the region are in differing stages of dealing with their housing challenges, but it’s clearly […]
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Closing the Homeownership Gap in Metro Atlanta and Beyond
The racial wealth gap has been growing over the past five decades and has reached the point where white households hold more than ten times the wealth of black households. The homeownership gap between black and white families is 30 percent. This continued disparity in wealth is of growing concern, and notably growing as black […]
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Save the Date: Closing the Homeownership Gap in Metro Atlanta and Beyond
The racial wealth gap has been growing over the past five decades, and has reached the point where white households hold more than ten times the wealth of black households. This continued disparity in wealth is of growing concern, and notably growing as black households continue to slip further behind in critical measures for wealth […]
