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In new book, AH CEO calls to ‘revamp nation’s housing policy’
Armed with 35 years of experience leading public housing agencies in the United States and Canada, Atlanta Housing CEO Eugene Jones knows politicians — from the local level to the upper echelons of government — don’t focus nearly as much on ensuring their constituents are sheltered as they should.
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The redemptive potential of Old Fourth Ward’s languishing Atlanta Civic Center
Gone are the days of Broadway musicals, concerts, lectures and commencement ceremonies at the historic auditorium. But public officials in Atlanta say the mammoth isn’t down for the count, but rather hibernating, awaiting its potential resurrection as a place to live, work and play.
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More than 1 million absentee ballots requested from Georgia’s online voter portal
Voters can track their status online to confirm their ballot was received.
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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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Cobb County vet exemplifies small businesses helped by COVID-19 relief grants
By Guest Columnist DANA JOHNSON, CEO of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce
In early March, Mitzi Schepps’ mobile veterinarian business, Wellness Waggin’, was thriving. Born out of a desire to help pets stay healthy and help alleviate pain through alternative treatments, Wellness Waggin’ provided acupuncture, laser therapy and other procedures to pets across Cobb County and metro Atlanta through-in home visits. Schepps’ business model relied heavily on the ability to travel and provide personalized care where pets are most comfortable – their homes.
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Keeping chins up as public health complicates the economy
Georgia government — not just this governor but all his predecessors, and the departments they oversee — operates on an ethos of chin-up prosperity that may seem a little dissonant in a time when the economy of the world has been shaken. Even in times of belt tightening, prosperity is never farther than just around the corner.
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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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Volunteers pick up debris as Atlanta’s trash collectors struggle under pandemic
As Atlanta’s understaffed trash collection service struggles to pick up waste under the extra burden of COVID-19, volunteers are picking up debris in neighborhoods. The latest effort cleaned a stretch of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and painted over graffiti at a MARTA rail station.
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Fernbank Museum offers end-of-summer, start-of-school programs; famed forest
Fernbank Museum is to offer its Summer Science Fest for two more weekends, offering an educational respite at the close of a season that – for some – has been anything but a Summer O’ Fun.
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BREAKING: As developer pressures Atlanta Housing to pay up after settlement, agency concedes to foot legal bill sans HUD help
Atlanta’s housing authority will have to foot the bill for a years-long legal battle with developer Integral Group and its business partners with non-federal cash, despite the public agency’s efforts to get permission to use U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding for the fight.
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Turning challenges into opportunities: Georgia Tech interns, partners respond to COVID-19
By Guest Columnist RUTHIE YOW, Service Learning and Partnerships specialist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
This summer, 44 Georgia Tech undergraduate and graduate students fanned out across the city and state as part of their engagement with the Summer Internship Program at Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS). This year’s program had a twist: It incorporated the nationwide protests for social justice and the public health catastrophe of COVID-19.
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Georgia’s hotels call for federal relief to stay open, protect remaining jobs
Metro Atlanta is in the Top 10 regions in the nation in the number of hotels that are delinquent in paying their mortgages, a new report shows. The massive layoffs in the hotel sector at the start of the pandemic evidently did not prevent the financial stress.
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Georgia’s toll collections down by 70 percent as pandemic cuts commuter travel
Georgia’s toll road system is the only one of eight systems nationwide in which traffic on toll roads has not recovered to levels approaching pre-pandemic levels, and toll collections are off by up to 70 percent, a new report shows.
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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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Atlanta’s latest affordable housing plan calls for borrowing $100 million
Atlanta’s new affordable housing proposal envisions borrowing up to $100 million to establish “nearly 3,500” affordable residences. Terms calls for annual payments of about $2.5 million for up to 40 years, to be funded with property taxes.
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Fulton told to expect October surge in hospital bed demand
“It is based on a continued path of what we’re doing in Georgia …”
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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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Virtual schooling: Strategies to help your child excel at self-directed learning
By Guest Columnists TYLER S. THIGPEN and CALEB COLLIER, academic leaders at The Forest School and Institute for Self-directed Learning
A parent at our school has three kids at home. Last school year, two of them were learners at our school, The Forest School, a self-directed learning environment in Pinewood Forest, in Fayetteville. The third attended a nearby traditional middle school.
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Hikes for Health Challenge grew from synergy of region’s parks, greenspaces
The new Hike for Health Challenge, with its $250 incentive from REI, is the latest example of the growing synergy among the leaders of 10 parks and greenspaces in metro Atlanta.
