What makes this era of Atlanta’s gentrification different?
A large home pops up alongside a more modest one. (Photo by Emilia Weinrobe)
The ongoing pandemic has sped up changes already occurring in the metro-Atlanta housing market, accelerating gentrification and worsening the already critical shortages in affordable housing. But this era is different for our sprawling metro region because of a shift in the demographic profile of the suburbs–and the increasingly regional effects of gentrification.
That means both Atlanta and the surrounding metro-area counties and cities must work together to keep gentrification from further pricing people out of the entire region.
Atlanta’s gentrification started in the 1970s with the business-led creation of ‘Midtown’ and the adjacent in-town neighborhoods of Inman Park and Virginia Highlands.
Here are some big-picture regional & metro-Atlanta solutions:
