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News Articles: public housing

A security camera in front of a boarded up duplex at the Dogwood Terrace public housing complex in Augusta. The city's housing authority is moving forward with a years-long plans to demolish the neighborhood's old apartment buildings.

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  • News

Decision pending in Augusta public housing case could have statewide impact

The State Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on a case that could change the way landlords of public housing are held accountable.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The lobby of the National Public Housing Museum, located in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Arts & Life

A National Public Housing Museum opens

The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's successes as well as its challenges are on display.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Alison Cuddy
Carlos Ross holds the box containing the ashes of his son. Carmelo Ross was 15 when he was shot and killed. Carlos says he hasn't heard from homicide investigators for two years.

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  • Law

Public housing authorities are angling for more legal protections. Where does that leave tenants?

How the legal precedent of sovereign immunity could change the way housing authorities in Georgia are held responsible in cases where tenants allege harm.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Chelsea Andrews (white hat), president and executive director of Montgomery County's<strong> </strong>Housing Opportunities Commission, adjusts Maryland State Delegate Lorig Charkoudian's hardhat during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hillandale Gateway housing development in Silver Spring, Md. The HOC says it owns more than 9,400 apartment, townhome and single-family home rental properties and provides subsidized housing for more than 9,300 households.

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  • National

One possible housing crisis solution? A new kind of public housing for all income levels

Maryland's Montgomery County is building mixed-income apartments in which people who can afford to pay market rate allow other renters to pay less. Cities and states nationwide are taking up the idea.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
HUD rally

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  • Economy

'I'm living in displacement': Tenants speak out on Georgia’s affordable housing crisis

Tenants and former tenants of public housing developments showed up at the Atlanta headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week demanding leaders address their concerns about poor living conditions. 

 

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Without working streetlights in parts of Yamacraw Village, Detraya Gilliard had only the crescent moon’s glow to search for her daughter Desaray in May 2022. She passed yards dotted with clotheslines and power lines, and a broken-down playground littered with juice boxes and red Solo cups.(Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News)

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A teen’s murder, mold in the walls: Unfulfilled promises haunt public housing

For years, federal lawmakers have failed to deliver the money needed to fix derelict public housing, leaving tenants — mostly people of color and families with low incomes — living with mold and gun violence that has had lasting health consequences.

August 26, 2024
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly and
  • Renuka Rayasam
Yamacraw Village, just west of Savannah's historic district. Credit: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

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  • News

Yamacraw residents wait as Savannah housing area continues to deteriorate

Occupancy declines in 1940s-era units, federal officials are set to visit, and city’s actions stall. 

July 03, 2024
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By:
  • Julia Gentin
An apartment building at Yamacraw Village in Savannah is seen with asphalt shingle roofing, which was installed in 2019 and noted by AEI Consultants as the only significant capital expenditure undertaken at the public housing complex in the past five years.

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  • Politics

Historic Savannah public housing complex should be demolished and rebuilt, consultant says

Public housing officials are seeking federal approval to rebuild Yamacraw Village.

September 19, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
People shop for air conditioners during a heat wave last week in New York City. Many people who live in public housing can't afford such units or the utility bills that come with them — and there's no federal requirement for air conditioning.

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  • National

Withering heat is more common, but getting AC is still a struggle in public housing

Many people in public housing are especially vulnerable to extreme heat, and there's no federal requirement for air conditioning. That leaves some tenants struggling to pay for it on their own.

August 01, 2023
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Lt. Travis Stokes, a firefighter in Richmond, Va., is helping to lead an effort to distribute protective equipment to residents of low-income and minority neighborhoods.

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  • National

In Minority Neighborhoods, Knocking On Doors To Stop The Spread Of The Coronavirus

Through a partnership between state and local government, volunteers and city workers in Richmond, Va., are passing out PPE in at-risk neighborhoods.

July 10, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
A man and child next to a wall full of graffiti in the East Lake area of Atlanta, 1996. The documentary "East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story" airs on PBS on Tuesday, Mar. 24 at 8 p.m.

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  • News

New PBS Documentary Reveals History And Community Of Atlanta Housing Project, East Lake Meadows

Atlanta’s East Lake Meadows public housing project first opened its doors to Atlanta’s low-income residents in 1970. By the end of the century, it was...

March 20, 2020
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Pria Mahadevan

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