Atlanta has all the tools it needs to be a dense, world-class metropolis, but the city’s leaders aren’t properly utilizing them in a way that could one day accommodate the ongoing population boom and boost housing affordability. As housing experts and city officials will tell you, Atlanta today has plenty of construction-ready land, dilapidated and abandoned houses desperately in need of rehabilitation and homes that, some might say, are far too large for their inhabitants.
So where do we go from here? In short, the city begs for density, and efforts to create such compactness abound. But we won’t get there without considerable changes to municipal regulations and a drastic shift in the way developers operate.
Raising houses is just plain dumb. Come on America! Damn
First the foundation must pass oob dept pf inspection
Atl is swamp land…
Increased density requires increased parkland, increased tree coverage, increased focus on maintaining (and expanding) stream buffers. Otherwise you’re building a heat sink, as in Edgewood, an environmental disaster area. Atlanta is a forest and the way we’re doing “affordable housing” is making it a desert.
THAT IS DUE TO COMPLETE LACK OF LEADERSHIP IN 10 COUNTY AREA DEMONCRATICS
“Some might say?!” What kind of ridiculous journalism is that?
This pandemic showed the problem with higher densities. But I live OTP so I probably shouldn’t make fun of carpetbaggers.
We don’t want Atlanta to be a densely overpopulated city anyway!!! I wish they would stop moving here kicking people out of their properties just to turn a profit and take their asses to another city with this bs!! Some people with money are just plain evil and dont care that they’re leaving folks homeless with this making Atlanta into Cali crap!!!