With temperatures creeping toward freezing, the City of Atlanta plans to open an emergency warming center in Summerhill on Monday evening.
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With CARES Act help, Atlanta aims to house hundreds of homeless in apartments
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a new initiative on Wednesday that promises to house hundreds of people experiencing homelessness before winter temperatures make sleeping on the streets much more dangerous.
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Initiative aims to help young mothers find housing after homelessness
An elderly widow who’s for years lived in a shed on Atlanta’s Westside is soon to become a “grandmotherly figure” at a new home where young mothers will come to take refuge from life on the streets, according to MicroLife Institute executive director Will Johnston.
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Atlanta City Council extends building moratorium for city’s Westside
The Atlanta City Council on Monday elected to extend a freeze on building permits in the areas around the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry.
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Atlanta officials could ask for state help with rash of street racing
New city laws and transportation infrastructure adjustments haven’t curbed Atlanta’s rash of street racing and stunt driving, so municipal officials are considering calling in the Georgia General Assembly for help.
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Ponce City Market’s proposed expansion promises new residences at “accessible price points”
Old Fourth Ward’s mixed-use mammoth Ponce City Market is bound for a major expansion, including more than 400 new residences that are supposed to have “accessible price points.”
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Atlanta Beltline Partnership, attorneys give crash-course on eviction prevention
Local leaders aren’t oblivious to the gentrifying impacts the Atlanta Beltline has had on the neighborhoods through which it weaves, but the economic side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated a housing crisis that’s for years displaced people from their homes.
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Cash from Gulch deal’s affordable housing trust fund allocated toward ‘offsetting rising property taxes’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday announced the first chunk of an affordable housing trust fund spawned from the controversial Gulch redevelopment deal would go toward combating displacement among the city’s longtime residents.
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BREAKING: Atlanta mayor’s housing chief appointed to job at public housing authority
Atlanta’s chief housing officer is soon to claim the vacant chief operations officer seat at the city’s public housing authority, according to sources familiar with the shift.
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Atlanta’s new “renter’s choice” rule could boost housing accessibility
A new City of Atlanta rule could help people hurdle costly barriers separating them from stable housing.
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New ARC tool tracks eviction filings across metro Atlanta
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) earlier this month debuted a new data analytics tool that could help local leaders track and respond to the eviction crisis spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Could Microsoft development spell trouble for Westside affordability?
The much-anticipated Quarry Yards mixed-use development slated for Atlanta’s Westside appears to be kaput, complicating already intense concerns about the future of affordable living in the area.
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More affordable houses, apartments bound for Atlanta’s Westside
Hundreds of new homes priced as affordable are headed for Atlanta’s Westside by way of a couple new projects supported by Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm.
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OPINION: Eviction moratoriums simply delay the inevitable, an exacerbated housing crisis
Although eviction moratoriums strive to keep people in their homes while they weather the storm of the novel coronavirus, the hard truth is that such efforts merely delay the inevitable.
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Pandemic-afflicted households can claim thousands from Atlanta’s new rental assistance program
Nearly 7,000 Atlantans feeling the strain of the coronavirus pandemic could get help paying rent, utility bills or security deposits, thanks to a new partnership with United Way of Greater Atlanta.
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How Decatur’s new inclusionary zoning rules stack up to Atlanta’s
Residential developers hoping to build in Decatur will now be required to earmark a chunk of new units for affordable housing.
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Report: It could take $91 million to fight Georgia’s eviction crisis
The cost to fight Georgia’s mounting eviction crisis likely exceeds $91 million, according to new research by the nonprofit Legal Services Corporation (LSC).
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How local businesses can secure pandemic relief funding from the city
Small businesses around town could be eligible for tens of thousands of dollars of public help with weathering the coronavirus pandemic.
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Chattahoochee RiverLands envisions more people enjoying river’s beauty
For decades, the Chattahoochee River has been an undervalued amenity and unrealized opportunity for the Atlanta region. But that’s about to change.
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Fulton County court bumps in-person eviction proceedings until November
The Magistrate Court of Fulton County has granted more peace of mind for residents on the cusp of eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
