In the midst of a shortage of affordable housing, only about 1,200 folks have entered a sweepstakes to win a new $406,000 house – with furniture – in Atlanta’s West Highlands neighborhood. There’s no minimum donation, and the goal is to raise money for a new shelter for homeless women and children.
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What the closing of Atlanta’s largest shelter means for our homeless population
By Dan Williams, program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Recently, while riding MARTA to work, I sat across from a woman appearing to experience mental illness. The sound of her shrill laugh permeated the train car as she raised her arms wildly in the air. Her wide-open, ragged roller bag, obviously too difficult to […]
