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News Articles: housing

Dekalb and Fulton County officials join leaders an investors with the Atlanta Land Trust to break ground on 40 affordable townhomes March 29, 2023.

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Amid rising costs, Atlanta's developing permanently affordable housing via a land trust model

Buying a house these days is just too expensive for a lot of people. But since 2009, the Atlanta Land Trust has been working with the mayor’s office to create permanently affordable housing.

May 24, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
Senator Ossof joined Roswell officials May 22, 2023 to announce The Helper Act a bill to help public servants buy homes where they live.

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Sen. Jon Ossoff announces Helper Act to assist public employees in buying homes

Local officials gathered in Roswell with Sen. Jon Ossoff on Tuesday to announce bipartisan legislation to help public servants live where they work.

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
The Community Foundation and the City of Atlanta announced a $200M affordable housing initiative on May 2, 2023

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Atlanta affordable housing initiative scores $200 million in public-private partnership

The funding is the most significant commitment of its kind to provide more people with safe places to live.  

May 04, 2023
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Firefighters spray a house in mid-demolition to keep dust down during the destruction of the 500th blighted structure in two years in Macon Tuesday. 

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  • Economy

Officials in Macon-Bibb County celebrate the demolition of 500 derelict houses

Officials in Macon-Bibb County celebrated a trio of milestones Tuesday brought about by the demolition of dilapidated housing. 

May 03, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Construction is ongoing on a 13-home “empty nester” community on Roberts Drive in Dunwoody.

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'Aging in place' options scarce in metro Atlanta

The concept of aging in place is a hot-button topic, however, the path to finding viable options for healthy and active Atlantans who are over 55 is elusive.

May 01, 2023
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  • Cathy Cobbs
The Housing Authority of Columbus, Georgia, Columbia Residential, and MercyMed of Columbus hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration Tuesday morning for The Banks at Mill Village, a new 102-unit mixed-income housing development in Columbus, Georgia.

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  • News

New Columbus housing development will provide access to healthcare for residents

A new $30 million mixed-income housing development opened in Columbus Tuesday that is the first phase of revitalizing the Louis T. Chase Homes and will provide access to preventive healthcare services for its residents.

April 21, 2023
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  • The Ledger Enquirer
A crew employed by Stafford Construction works on a new home on Ward Street in Macon’s Pleasant Hill neighborhood. Pleasant Hill is one of the places carved out for work by a new, federally funded affordable housing non-profit group of which Stafford Construction is a member.

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Macon has millions for affordable housing development. A new nonprofit will decide how it’s spent

Four neighborhoods in Macon are being targeted for affordable housing developments by a new nonprofit working with the Macon-Bibb County Land Bank Authority.

April 10, 2023
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  • Laura Corley

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  • Book Reviews

'Poverty, By America' shows how the rest of us benefit by keeping others poor

Pulitzer winner for Evicted Matthew Desmond examines why the U.S. has more poverty than other rich nations. He finds it spends big on social programs, but gives the most to those who need it least.

March 17, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at the Georgia Logistics Summit at the Savannah Convention Center on March 8, 2023.

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Kemp urges more workforce housing in Georgia amid explosive growth in economic development

The greater Savannah area is projected to grow 34% by 2045, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

March 09, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Randy Bedingfield plays the piano in a corner of the Daybreak Day Center during a reception celebrating the 10th anniversary in November of 2022 of the facility, which offers an array of services to the unhoused. Daybreak does not receive public money for their work. Bedingfield, a regular, says he found the center after his parents died. "It hit during a particularly difficult time for me," he said.

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  • Politics

A Georgia Senate bill asks for audits of homeless services. Why?

The state senate passed Senate Bill 62 Thursday night, which calls for a state audit of public money spent by nonprofits on homeless services. 

March 03, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Sentiment Among U.S. Home Builders is at its Highest Level Since 2005

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  • Politics

Bill lifting local control on house construction sparks debate in Georgia House committee hearing

A Georgia House panel debated sweeping legislation that would prevent local governments from regulating everything from the color of a home’s exterior to the amount of vinyl siding to whether a home can be built on a concrete slab.

March 02, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • Politics

Two bills aimed at affordable housing draw industry backing and local criticism

Georgia Rep. Dale Washburn, R-Macon, introduced two bills this week aimed at solving the Peach State’s affordable housing shortfall.  

February 24, 2023
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Consultant and advocate for the homeless Andrae Bailey explains the concept of "Housing First" to non-profit leaders in Macon recently.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Issues in Athens, Macon, and Savannah on housing, homelessness, and environment

Friday on Political Rewind: Across the state, legislators and organizers are looking for solutions to homelessness — this as the cost of home ownership continues to skyrocket. Also, we look at environmental issues facing our state.

February 24, 2023
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  • Natalie Mendenhall and
  • Chase McGee
A row of houses in Atlanta

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Why is rent so high? Breaking down the AJC's 'American Dream for Rent' series

Thursday on Political Rewind: Across metro Atlanta, corporations have bought up tens of thousands of homes, raising rents and pricing middle-class Georgians out of home ownership. Our special panel of journalists and government leaders explains why the rent is so high.

February 23, 2023
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By:
  • Natalie Mendenhall and
  • Chase McGee
A child rides a scooter past an open house in Los Angeles.

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  • Business

Are you caught in the millennial vs. boomer housing competition? Tell us about it

Low housing inventory has created competition between millennials, who are in their peak home-buying years, and boomers, who may be downsizing or buying second homes.

February 21, 2023
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  • Arezou Rezvani
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