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News Articles: housing

A photo of a house key next to a miniature house

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  • Economy

Should First-Time Homeowners Buy In Georgia’s Hot Real Estate Market?

In June 2021, Atlanta home prices were up 22.3% compared to last year, selling at a median price of $400,000 — a year-over-year increase that's one of the highest the Atlanta market has seen.

August 10, 2021
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By:
  • Kyra Posey
Eviction notice sign

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  • Economy

Biden And Congress Hand Georgia Eviction Crisis To State, Local Officials As CDC Ban Ends

Across much of Georgia, as more eviction cases advance through the courts, the pressure is growing to speed up distribution of hundreds of millions of federal dollars for rental assistance to tenants and their landlords before it’s too late.

August 02, 2021
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside one of the apartments of the building tribal leaders bought in Lakeport, Calif., through Homekey.

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  • National

California Turned Pandemic Rentals Into Permanent Housing For Homeless People

California leased hotel rooms for unhoused residents during the pandemic to move them out of crowded shelters. Then it bought some of those hotels to create long-term homes for them.

July 16, 2021
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By:
  • Molly Solomon and
  • Erin Baldassari
A new study says on average someone would have to earn $24.90 per hour to rent a modest two-bedroom home on no more than 30% of their pay. That's far more than the federal minimum wage.

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  • National

Rents Are Out Of Reach For Most Americans Earning Minimum Wage, A Study Says

Workers simply don't earn enough money to keep up with skyrocketing rental rates across the country, the National Low Income Housing Coalition found in its latest Out of Reach report.

July 14, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Hurricane Irma damaged homes in the Florida Keys in 2017. A new study finds buildings in the contiguous U.S. are concentrated in disaster-prone areas.

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  • Science

More Than Half Of U.S. Buildings Are In Places Prone To Disaster, Study Finds

Buildings are concentrated in places that are likely to be hit by a disaster such as a hurricane, flood or wildfire, researchers found. That includes both urban and rural hotspots.

June 24, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, wants answers from one of the country's largest owners of single-family rental homes. A report from an advocacy group finds that the company has been filing evictions at more than four times the rate in predominantly Black counties as in mostly white counties.

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  • National

Senator Presses Landlord Over Report It Evicts Black Renters At Higher Rates

A senator is asking why a corporate landlord has filed to evict renters in predominantly Black counties at four times the rate as renters in predominantly white counties.

June 11, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Mehran Mossaddad is a single dad who drives Uber for a living. But when the pandemic hit, he stopped because he couldn't leave his daughter home alone. He fell behind on rent and is facing eviction.

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  • National

Millions Could Face Eviction With Federal Moratorium Ending And A Logjam In Aid

Congress approved $47 billion to help struggling renters avoid eviction. But that money still isn't reaching many who need it. And an eviction moratorium from the CDC expires at the end of the month.

June 10, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Katrina Chism's landlord filed an eviction case against her after she lost her job during the coronavirus pandemic and fell a month behind on the rent. "Once you get that eviction, no one's going to want you to rent from them," Chism, 41, says.

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  • National

Corporate Landlord Evicts Black Renters At Far Higher Rates Than Whites, Report Finds

A report says a corporate landlord run by a former Goldman Sachs partner has filed to evict renters in predominantly Black counties at four times the rate as renters in predominantly white counties.

June 03, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
A house being torn down on Pursley Street in Macon recently.

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  • Economy

Macon-Bibb County Demolishes 31 Houses In Under 30 Days

This week officials in Macon-Bibb County met a goal in an effort to eliminate blighted housing in the city. 

May 21, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A number of studies have found that Black-owned homes are undervalued when compared to those of white homeowners. This is especially true in historically Black neighborhoods. A 2018 report by the Brookings Institution finds that adds up to $156 billion in cumulative losses for Black homeowners.

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  • National

A Black Woman Says She Had To Hide Her Race To Get A Fair Home Appraisal

Two low home appraisals spurred a Black woman in Indianapolis to administer her own fair housing test. The result led her to file a complaint alleging housing discrimination.

May 21, 2021
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By:
  • Jill Sheridan
Some families wait years to get a housing voucher only to find out many landlords won't accept them.

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  • National

Government Housing Vouchers Are Hard To Get, And Hard To Use

The federal government plans to release $5 billion in new housing vouchers to help those at risk of homelessness. Low-income tenants often struggle to find landlords who will accept such vouchers.

May 11, 2021
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By:
  • Pam Fessler
Robert Lee Johnson in his old neighborhood in Compton. Johnson remembers moving in one day in 1961. "I see moving vans, trucks and everything all down the street," he says. Johnson was 5 years old at the time, so he says he thought "it was moving day for everybody." And he noticed that all the other families moving in were were Black, too.

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  • National

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Owning a home is a part of the American dream. It's also the key to building intergenerational wealth. But Black Americans continue to face discrimination in housing, including through higher costs.

May 11, 2021
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
Property being auctioned from courthouse steps

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  • Economy

Bargain Houses Help Recoup Taxes With Macon-Bibb's New Process

Macon-Bibb Tax Commissioner and Land Bank Authority get homes back on tax rolls, ease blight through creative tax sales.

April 26, 2021
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
The Kendeda Building on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

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  • Environment

Georgia Tech Experiment Declared South's First 'Living Building'

 An experiment in sustainable buildings on the campus of Georgia Tech has been deemed a success.

April 22, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Construction site in Macon

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  • Economy

Housing Demand Creates Macon-Bibb Construction Boom

Many people are staying in their homes, reducing the number of properties on the market. That's creating a higher demand for new housing.

April 20, 2021
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
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