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News Articles: housing insecurity

Keisha Gibson at the motel room she shares with her seven children. Gibson's children meet the definition of homeless twice over under a federal education law. As a family and under federal housing law they do not, locking Gibson and her kids out of housing aid the could better help her kids succeed in school.

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Housing aid doesn't always reach homeless youth. Here's how educators aim to help

Educators say helping homeless students find a stable address is incredibly important. But before that can happen, there has to be agreement that kids are even homeless in the first place. 

January 24, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

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A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Macon's Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

The Macon-Bibb Community Enhancement Authority is a state authority created a decade ago with the sole mission to reduce poverty in Bibb County. But many longtime neighborhood residents say the success of new and first-time homeownership in Pleasant Hill is a feat that the CEA hasn’t achieved often enough.

December 19, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock as election day approaches in Georgia. Photos provided by Getty Images

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Georgia Today: Runoff election day; health care and affordable housing, new name for Savannah square

LISTEN: Today is runoff election day in Georgia, health care systems are investing in affordable housing, and a new name may be coming to a public square in Savannah.

December 06, 2022
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
Randy Bedingfield plays the piano in a corner of the Daybreak Day Center during a reception celebrating the tenth anniversary of the facility which offers an array of services to the unhoused. 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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Macon's Daybreak Center celebrates a decade of serving the homeless and looks forward to new work

Over the past decade, the Daybreak Center has provided a place for the unhoused in Macon to do simple things: laundry, bathe, access medical care or even just receive mail. Supporters decided the milestone was worth a party to mark the center’s 10 years of service to the community. 

November 15, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship

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Atlanta City Council resolution could increase housing options for low income residents

The Atlanta City Council is considering a resolution that would increase the number of residential developments accepting public housing vouchers.

November 14, 2022
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  • Amanda Andrews
Pat Garrett, left, and her partner Cedric moments before wheeling their home out of the way of Macon-Bibb County Public Works bulldozer on June 8, 2022. Macon-Bibb County bulldozed one of the city's largest homeless encampments, saying it was necessary as a public health measure.

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Georgians describe their experiences with homelessness to state Senate committee

ATLANTA – A Georgia Senate committee focused on addressing homelessness heard Wednesday from a variety of Georgians who have directly experienced living on the streets.

November 10, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Georgia Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Christopher Nunn is shown in this undated photo.

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Abrupt closure of rental assistance program frustrates housing advocates

Georgia’s Department of Community Affairs has stopped taking new applications for its rental assistance program, surprising tenants and landlords across the state who were expecting help.
 

November 03, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
LaShundra Thomas in the doorway of her new home in Columbus. A string of deadbeat landlords in Atlanta left Thomas without adequate housing.

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On the cutting edge of solutions to homelessness in Georgia, it's 'housing first'

After years of steady declines, levels of homelessness in the U.S. began rising again during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proven strategies are being used to reduce homelessness, even if they are facing new challenges.

October 27, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
 On Sept. 12, Atlanta city officials, nonprofit housing advocates and representatives with health care provider CareSource gathered on site of one of the homes that will provide more affordable rental housing through an Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership campaign. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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Nonprofits, governments team up to help people keep a roof overhead amid Georgia housing crisis

Housing insecurity is not just an Atlanta issue, but a problem across Georgia and many other areas of the country, increasing the need for partnerships between government and other entities to address it.

September 23, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap

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Homelessness a problem in rural Georgia

Though many associate homelessness with urban centers, the problem of lack of housing is more widespread, speakers said at a recent state Senate hearing on homelessness.   

August 29, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Pat Garrett, left, and her partner Cedric moments before wheeling their home out of the way of Macon-Bibb County Public Works bulldozer on June 8, 2022. Macon-Bibb County bulldozed one of the city's largest homeless encampments, saying it was necessary as a public health measure.

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Some Georgia cities have plans for rehousing instead of pushing the homeless out of sight

As the unhoused become more a part of our daily lives, some communities are taking action. Sometimes it means simply pushing the unhoused out of the way. Increasingly it can mean creating, and sticking to, a plan. 

 

July 13, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
An Atlanta home from which people were removed

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Georgia Today: Extended CDC Pandemic Eviction Ban Delays Day Of Reckoning For Georgia Tenants

Hundreds of thousands of Georgians who lost income in the pandemic, falling behind on their rent payments and putting them at increased risk for eviction, just got another reprieve. After a previous CDC eviction ban expired earlier this week, the Biden administration has again frozen evictions, this time until early October. The new moratorium aims to cover renters in counties with “substantial” spread of the delta coronavirus variant. But for the state’s most vulnerable families living on the economic margins, the realities of finding and maintaining safe, affordable housing were much more complicated long before the pandemic hit. 

August 06, 2021
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
An Atlanta home from which people were removed

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What Could An 'Eviction Tsunami' Look Like In Atlanta?

A nationwide moratorium on evictions has been in effect during the pandemic as a public health measure imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that moratorium ends July 31. GPB’s Rickey Bevington speaks with expert Mike Carnathan about what this tsunami of evictions could mean.

July 30, 2021
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  • Rickey Bevington
Evictions in Macon

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Evictions Resume In Macon-Bibb Despite Some Protections

Bibb County tenants and property owners are once again heading to court for eviction cases even as confusion over federal protections persists.

September 18, 2020
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  • Joe Kovac
Steve Firestone, left, owner of Crystal Lake Holdings LLC, waits for the start of his hearing in Bibb County Municipal Court Friday. Firestone's attorneys convinced the court to bind Firestone's case over to state court.

Macon Landlord Asks For Jury Trial On Code Violations

The landlord of a Macon apartment complex that made news when tenants were forcibly evicted when property managers let the water get cut off may have...

March 22, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
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