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Tag: City Hall
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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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New leadership at Atlanta’s City Hall bodes well for closer collaboration
Following the results of the Nov. 30 run-off election, a drastically different Atlanta City Hall will take office in January.
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Georgia House leader wants hearing on crime in Atlanta
Meanwhile, City Hall folks tend to stay mad about criminal access to guns.
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Second Atlanta leader departs amid employee frustration
Atlanta’s human resources chief is leaving City Hall — the second top leader lately to head out the door, leaving behind employee complaints.
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Atlanta’s resilience chief departing
Not quite a year after taking the post, Amol Naik is stepping down as Atlanta’s chief resilience officer.
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Auburn Avenue is our most important street. Here’s what we should be doing
As we close out Black History Month, I think it’s time we show some love towards the most important street in Atlanta – Auburn Avenue.
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With online “checkbook” register, Atlanta aims to get ahead of public, media questions
With a new website that shows Atlanta’s spending down to the checkbook level, city leaders are hoping for many things, including to head off the many folks writing in to ask questions about city spending.
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Atlanta mayor’s cabinet turnover gets into high gear
At least seven top city staff will “transition externally” and their jobs will be filled over the next few months, according to a Friday afternoon statement from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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One hundred days in, new Atlanta mayor promises stronger city after “uncomfortable” time
For the symbolically significant one-hundred-day mark of her administration, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is thanking employees, evaluating leadership and looking to rebuild public trust at what she called an “uncomfortable” time for the city.
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Former Atlanta official Mitzi Bickers indicted on pay-for-play bribery allegations
By Maggie Lee A new federal grand jury indictment charges that from 2010 to 2015, some $2 million dollars in bribes enriched former city official Mitzi Bickers and companies related to her — paid by now-convicted contractors who got some $17 million in city work. A federal investigation into City Hall pay-for-play allegations has been […]
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State lawmakers vote for closure of part of Downtown Atlanta’s Mitchell Street
The street that runs between Atlanta City Hall and the state Capitol has become a battle line between the near-neighbors Downtown.
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Atlanta leaders work on legislative agenda: thinking affordability, assessments and airport
Atlanta’s elected officials under the Gold Dome and at City Hall are working against a tight state deadline to figure out if they want to lobby for new laws or flexibility to set policy on affordability, renters’ rights, tax assessments and more. On Friday, new Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and near a dozen of Atlanta’s […]
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, new Atlanta City Council take office
Under a sunny sky on a freezing day, with a half-hour wait ahead of them, a few folks were looking in the glass front doors of Morehouse’s MLK, waiting to head into the swearing-in of new Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, of Atlanta City Council members and municipal judges.
