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News Articles: housing insecurity

A coaltion of Georgia housing rights organizations descended outside the state capitol on the March 5 eve of a critical deadline to advance legislation. Habitat for Humanity volunteers would build a makeshift home to promote a tax credit bill that would save money for home construction expenses for nonprofits. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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Georgia housing groups pessimistic over prospects of Legislature reining in investor price squeeze

A coalition of housing rights advocates are seeing little progress on bipartisan bills aimed at protecting Georgians — despite a push from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock pushes for federal help.

March 25, 2025
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Rasheeda Rahmaan James's sons pose with her for a portrait.

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Atlanta Motel to Home program bridges the cash gap to rehome working families

Working people living in motels are considered a "hidden homeless" population. An alliance of nonprofits are working to move 1,000 affected families in Atlanta to stable housing by next summer. 

August 27, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Partners for Home working with the City of Atlanta is conducting their annual count estimating how many homeless people live in the city.

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Atlanta to begin a new regular count of unhoused residents in 2025. The difference? It's in summer

Atlanta City Council has unanimously approved a measure to begin counting unhoused people in the summer every other year starting in 2025 to get better data. 

August 08, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
New home construction in Chatham County, GA. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current

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Data dive: What is ‘affordable housing’ in Coastal Georgia? It depends

What’s “affordable” housing depends on what’s in your wallet. But zoom out to all of coastal Georgia, cross-reference a federal guideline and it shows most four-person families can “afford” housing ranging from zero up to about $2,300 per month.  Here’s how numbers work to determine policies, challenges for families.

June 10, 2024
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  • Maggie Lee
Frontline Housing provides resource kits to families as part of their outreach.

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Atlanta metro nonprofits join forces to find permanent housing for 1,000 families living in motels

A group of nonprofits are working to help 1,000 families in the Atlanta metro area go from living in motels to stable, permanent housing by June of 2025.

May 22, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Atlanta's wages have increased 2.5 percent over the past year.

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Atlanta campaign accepts applicants to receive free rent for a year

Three Atlanta families will be selected to receive free rent for a year and applications close this week.

December 06, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
A tent city of unhoused people is a short walk from the state Capitol in downtown Atlanta.

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No quick fix for Georgia’s affordable housing shortage

Tears in the social safety net leave many without a roof overhead.

August 21, 2023
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  • Aaleah McConnell
Stock photo eviction notice

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A new Atlanta housing collaboration supports residents facing eviction

The rising cost of Atlanta housing is making it hard for long-term residents to stay in their neighborhoods, but a new land trust offers solutions to address the shortage of affordable housing.



 

June 22, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
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
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