Leadership at Atlanta’s housing authority might undergo another change in the near future.
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Invest Atlanta okays creation, rehab for 709 affordable housing units
The City of Atlanta’s economic development agency approved bond resolutions that would help fund the construction and restoration of more than 700 affordable apartments.
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Chicago’s Eugene Jones tapped as next CEO of Atlanta’s housing authority
The Atlanta Housing board of commissioners elected Tuesday afternoon to tap Chicago’s Eugene Jones as its next chief executive officer.
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The ins and outs of the $50 million Home First supportive housing initiative
Atlanta’s $50 million Home First program—now fully funded, thanks to a $114,000 gift from Ameris Bank—endeavors to create 550 much-needed units of permanent supportive housing for the city’s chronically homeless and other marginalized people.
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Could ‘100 Great Ideas’ help Atlanta shed its affordable housing crisis?
Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to vanquish Atlanta’s daunting affordable housing crisis. Housing affordability — in Atlanta and many other major cities — is a complicated issue, and there are countless methods that municipal governments have tried to curb the problem.
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Affordable housing may get fast-tracked in Atlanta’s building permit office
Atlanta’s focus on affordable housing has turned to the issuance of building permits, specifically, speeding up the permitting process for affordable homes. The issue was approved Tuesday, in the same meeting at which the interim head of the city’s housing authority said it has budgeted $106 million in development projects.
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City reveals affordable housing plan
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a plan today to steer city policy around affordable housing. Here are the key takeaways.
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Atlanta’s housing authority approves $357 million in annual spending; goal of serving 1,100 new families
The need is huge: about 75,000 households are on the waiting list for assistance from the city’s public housing authority.
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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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Joy Fitzgerald voted Atlanta Housing interim leader — again
Atlanta’s public housing authority is getting a new interim leader– Joy Fitzgerald.
“It’s actually a delight to be back with the Atlanta Housing Authority,” Fitzgerald said, just after the board approved her Wednesday as interim president and CEO.
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Cincinnati housing boss surprisingly backs out of deal to lead Atlanta Housing
Gregory Johnson, the head of Cincinnati’s housing authority who had been picked to be the next CEO of Atlanta’s housing authority, changed his mind. That decision came as a total surprise to Atlanta leaders, who were not notified by Johnson that he had decided to stay in Cincinnati.
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Atlanta’s housing authority selects new leader from Cincinnati
After about 10 months with an interim leader, Atlanta’s housing authority has selected as its new president and CEO Gregory Johnson. Johnson is CEO of Cincinnati’s housing authority.
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Atlanta Housing Authority close to picking a new CEO
The Atlanta Housing Authority is in the final stages of a national search for a new president and CEO – and that decision could set the stage for the future of affordable housing in the city of Atlanta.
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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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Choice Atlanta grants help 14 organizations revitalize the west side
By Sonam Vashi More than a dozen organizations will receive microgrants to help revitalize west side neighborhoods through an Atlanta Housing program funded by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department. Fourteen groups working on programs that will help Ashview Heights, Vine City, and the neighborhood around the Atlanta University Center received $50,000 in […]
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Atlanta Housing, BeltLine, private partners joining on eastside building
A development of below-market-rate housing may start rising on the eastside BeltLine as early as this summer.
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Why aren’t Atlanta landlords renting to Section 8 tenants?
The second story in our Section 8 mini-series focuses on landlords’ common complaints and stereotypes, and one housing authority’s efforts to address its landlord shortage.
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Atlanta plans new subsidized units for the chronically homeless
The city plans to begin developing 550 new units specifically targeted at permanently housing those who are chronically homeless.
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A First Step Toward a Mixed-Income Community
Intro by John Ahmann, Westside Future Fund: Thanks to the Jaren Abedania, the Westside Future Fund’s (WFF) Vice President of Real Estate, for this week’s column. In my October 2, 2018 column, Two Years of Westside Future Fund, I spoke to our commitment to increase the supply of high-quality affordable rental housing and in this […]
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Atlanta housing leaders – once shunned – back on the scene
After an eight-year freeze between the administration of Mayor Kasim Reed and the pioneers of Atlanta’s modern day transformation of public housing, a thawing is taking place.
That thaw was evident on the night of Oct. 18 when top leaders in Atlanta and the nation attended Integral’s 25thanniversary celebration at the Fairmont in west Atlanta.
