The lack of information about government services is a theme shared by women in Atlanta and 12 other cities around the world that have launched the Carter Center’s “Inform Women, Transform Lives” outreach program.
Tag: Homelessness
Posted inAtlanta Civic Circle, Housing Affordability, Latest News
City to open warming center to protect homeless during pro-Trump demonstrations
As groups of pro-Trump activists gear up to rally across the nation this weekend in protest of what they consider a fraudulent election, the City of Atlanta is preparing to protect some of its homeless residents from the demonstrations.
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Homelessness: An ‘income-first’ approach promotes transition to stable housing
By Guest Columnist MICK COCHRAN, chairman of the board of First Step Staffing, Inc.
2020 has presented all sorts of challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. The loss of income and wealth creates significant uncertainty and anxiety, coupled with fears and concerns over our family and friends’ individual health and welfare. Parents struggle with balancing childcare and maintaining secure employment. Many children are in despair, trying to keep up with school while mastering a whole new way of learning.
Posted inAtlanta Civic Circle
As temperatures drop, city officials to open emergency warming center near downtown
With temperatures creeping toward freezing, the City of Atlanta plans to open an emergency warming center in Summerhill on Monday evening.
Posted inSean Keenan
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, we have a housing problem. It’s time more of us cared
By Guest Columnists JEFF SMYTHE and RAPHAEL HOLLOWAY, CEOs, respectively, of HOPE Atlanta and Gateway Center
For too long, we’ve turned a blind eye to Atlanta’s homelessness and housing issues. Could the pandemic and racial justice movement finally be catalysts for real change?
Posted inSean Keenan
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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As wave of evictions looms, Atlanta mayor aims to put kibosh on displacement — for now
While a tidal wave of evictions looms large over metro Atlantans in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who recently announced she’s contracted the virus herself, is shooting to curb the number of people who are uprooted from their homes.
Posted inSean Keenan
Amid pandemic, city plan directs homeless sleeping at airport to supportive services
On Monday, the Atlanta City Council unanimously approved legislation that kickstarts a 60-day plan to curb the amount of homeless people sleeping at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and help them navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted inSean Keenan
Most of city’s homeless population has been tested for COVID-19, but more work is needed
Most of Atlanta’s known homeless population has now been tested for COVID-19, thanks to an initiative spearheaded by the city’s homeless services manager Partners for Home (PFH) and healthcare focused nonprofit Mercy Care.
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How Atlanta is testing, isolating its homeless population during coronavirus pandemic
The novel coronavirus outbreak has jolted Atlanta’s homeless population in a way not experienced by most of the city’s residents, sending indigent people scrambling for safe places to take refuge and smart sources of food.
Posted inATL Business Chronicle
Cover Story: Atlanta makes progress in reducing homelessness, but safety concerns worsen downtown
Over the past decade, the city of Atlanta’s homeless population has been cut almost in half — one of the sharpest declines in the country.
But a perception exists that there are more people on the streets of downtown.
Actually, both of those statements are true.
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Tight real estate market challenges homeless service nonprofits; tech lends a hand
Open Doors is lowering barriers to housing in a hot real estate market, and it’s getting a high-tech assist.
Posted inSustainable Communities, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Help for Post-9/11 Veterans Struggling with Homeownership
By George S. Burgan, Senior Director of Communications & Technology, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. According to the 2018 report The Housing Affordability Struggle of 21st Century Veterans, post-9/11 service members struggle to achieve homeownership at the level of older veterans and have a lower homeownership rate than civilians in general. While veterans from Korea to […]
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Atlanta city jail unsustainable, should be converted to transitional housing
By Guest Columnist JOE BEASLEY, a human rights activist in Atlanta and founder of the Joe Beasley Foundation
The taxpayers of Atlanta are losing over $30 million annually trying to maintain the Atlanta City Detention Center. We must ask whether that remains a good investment and, if not, how to create something that would be worthy of our great city and its historic legacy. I believe we need to strive for more.
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The Super Bowl is finally over but another side of Atlanta hid in plain sight
The Super Bowl is over…finally.
Most of the remnants of the ‘Big Game’ are gone from downtown but many of the problems that were here before kickoff still remain.
Posted inPhilanthropy, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Caring for the vulnerable in our region of abundance
By Terry Mazany, senior vice president, philanthropy, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta I was riding MARTA to work recently and at one stop I looked up to see a small elderly woman struggling to drag a large overflowing suitcase and plastic trash bag full of her possessions through the door next to me onto the train. […]
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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.
Posted inPoverty & Equity, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS AT ITS ROOT CAUSE
By John Berry, St. Vincent de Paul of Georgia At St. Vincent de Paul we have discovered a cure for homelessness…it’s a home. I’m not trying to be glib here but it is a simple fact: we can prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. People like “Charles” who is living on veteran’s […]
