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News Articles: housing

Jimmy 'Butch" Heck

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Glynn homes for homeless caught in bureaucratic slog

For four years, Fraisher Poole, a 66-year-old grandmother, has been living on the streets of the town where she grew up and raised her own family. For more than six months, she has been anxiously waiting for news that she can turn the keys and walk into a new home.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Justin Taylor and
  • The Current
A sign announces a new home has been sold on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga. The Georgia House on Feb. 20, 2024 passed a bill that could allow local school districts to reduce property tax rates and continue to receive state aid (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Bill would let Georgia schools drop property tax rates and still get state aid

Property tax rates could drop in some Georgia school districts under a House plan. It would let districts with low property wealth continue to qualify for state aid even if they decrease property tax rates. 

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
A man named Frank sits in his tent with a river view in Portland, Ore., in 2021. A lawsuit originally filed in 2018 on behalf of homeless people in the Oregon city of Grants Pass is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court in April.

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  • Law

How far can cities go to clear homeless camps? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide

Lower courts have said it's unconstitutional to punish people for sleeping outside if no shelter is available. Cities say these rulings have paralyzed their efforts to manage growing tent encampments.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
A Home Depot logo sign hands on its facade, Friday, May 14, 2021, in North Miami, Fla. Home Depot reports their financial earnings on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023.

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  • Business

Home Depot's strong fourth quarter overshadowed by weakening sales and expectations for 2024

Home Depot's sales continued to weaken in its fiscal fourth quarter, as the country's largest home improvement retailer deals with Americans who remain concerned about high mortgage rates and inflation. While its quarterly results topped analysts' expectations, it provided a soft sales forecast for fiscal 2024. Shares slipped before the market open on Tuesday.

February 20, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A view of the Kingfield neighborhood from the roof of the Sundial Building, a new 12-unit apartment building in Minneapolis.

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  • National

The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing

As Americans struggle to find affordable housing, cities are realizing their own rules have made it too hard and expensive to build the homes they need. Now, some cities are trying to change that.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
What is the fate of all this empty space?

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  • Business

Could vacant office spaces across the U.S. be the solution to a national problem?

A recent study calculated that about a fifth of U.S. office space was vacant at the end of last year. What is the fate of all this empty real estate?

February 15, 2024
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Housing non-profit MicroLife Institute built a community of affordable tiny homes in Clarkston in 2021. Now they're working with Gwinnett Housing Corporation to develop a tiny home community in Gwinnett County.

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Housing nonprofit planning tiny home community in Gwinnett County

Affordable housing advocates are working together to develop a community of tiny homes in Gwinnett County.

February 14, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, center, presents a ceremonial check at Savannah City Hall, corresponding to $4.1 million in HUD funding for the Chatham-Savannah Interagency Council on Homelessness.

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  • Economy

Georgia's federal funding for homelessness to increase by 16%, as HUD secretary visits Savannah

All nine continuums of care in Georgia will see an increase in their HUD funding.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Rotting wood on the upper right balcony on Building 700 at University Pointe is an example of the hazards caused by poor drainage on the 25-year-old buildings purchased by the old Macon State College in 2011. (Liz Fabian)

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‘Dangerous’ Middle Georgia State housing needs emergency repairs

The Development Authority of Bibb County approved $27 million in bonds for university apartments.

January 31, 2024
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  • Liz Fabian
A “Welcome Home” mural greets tenants and visitors to Atlanta’s first rapid housing community for those experiencing homelessness. The project was built on a former city parking lot and includes 40 micro-units made from repurposed shipping containers. (Dyana Bagby)

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  • News

Shipping containers converted for Atlanta’s first rapid housing site to combat homelessness

Tenants will begin moving into Atlanta’s first rapid housing community this week, marking a milestone in the city’s efforts to combat homelessness.

January 30, 2024
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By:
  • Dyana Bagby
A new Harvard University report finds that housing was unaffordable for a record half of renters in 2022. And a softening rental market might not help those who struggle most.

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  • National

Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds

A new Harvard analysis finds people across income levels got squeezed by rent hikes during the pandemic. The market has lost millions of low-rent places, and new construction is mostly high-end.

January 25, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
A home for sale sign on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga. On Friday, the National Association of Realtors reported that 2023 saw the smallest number of home sales in nearly 30 years.

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  • Economy

2023 was the worst year to buy a house since the 1990s. But there's hope for 2024

Realtors hope it will be easier to buy a house in 2024. It can't get much harder: last year was one of the slowest on record thanks to high mortgage rates coupled with a housing shortage.

January 20, 2024
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Gov. Brian Kemp

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  • News

State awards second round of grants through new rural housing program

The state awarded more than $9 million Monday to support more than 400 housing units in four Georgia communities, the second round of grants through a program Gov. Brian Kemp created last year.

January 09, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
An empty lot where a house once stood in Houston. The former residents moved because of flood damage. A new study suggests that people are moving away from the most flood-prone neighborhoods in cities that are otherwise growing in population.

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  • Climate

People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

December 18, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Standing on a trolley loaded with representatives from land banks across Georgia, River Edge Behavioral Health CEO Cass Hatcher points to the construction site where a tiny home development for people with disabilities is being built. The tour of housing developments in Macon on Wednesday was part of the annual Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit.

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Georgia aims to grow workforce housing amid statewide housing shortage

A shortage of housing for Georgia’s growing workforce is becoming a greater issue for the state’s economic prospects as it works to attract more manufacturers and big businesses who want to know where their employees will live.

December 08, 2023
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By:
  • Laura Corley
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