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News Articles: unhoused

United to End Homelessness executive director Jake Hall speaks to The Telegraph on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. Hall sees addressing homelessness in Macon and Middle Georgia as a collaborative approach between government and local non-profits. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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These Macon laws prohibit homeless camps, but arrests are rare. Here’s why

Macon-Bibb County is the only municipality in Middle Georgia where homeless camping and sleeping in public is banned. But the ordinances actually have allowed for more outreach and support than arrests.

February 14, 2025
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  • Jesse Fraga
Ebenezer Baptist Church

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Georgia Today: ATL city workers kill unhoused man in tent clearing; Laken Riley Act; CNN layoffs

On the Thursday January 23rd edition of Georgia Today: An unhoused man died last week when city workers used construction equipment to clear the camp where he was living; the Laken Riley Act is on its way to becoming law; And CNN expects to lay off about two-hundred people.

January 23, 2025
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Volunteers for the Fulton County Point in Time Count prepare to canvass on January 23, 2024.

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Fulton County delays annual unhoused resident count after freezing weather

Fulton’s annual Point In Time Count of all the unhoused people in the county has been postponed this year due to cold weather. It was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

January 23, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and ATLDOT Commissioner Solomon Caviness join workers in front of a brine truck on Dec 12, 2024.

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Atlanta mayor, city officials share cold weather safety plans

Atlanta transit officials and first responders joined the mayor with updates on addressing crime and providing shelter to residents during cold nights.

December 03, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
A man is shown sitting on a chair with his head facing down onto his arms resting on a table inside an empty room.

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New initiative aims to change conversation about unsheltered people in Brunswick

The founders of Under One Roof are raising millions of dollars to help the "acutely" homeless.

October 03, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
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Macon joins select cities investing in housing solely for unhoused people

The new development on Macon’s east side, called the Tiny Cottages, are exclusively available to people who meet the federal definition of homelessness.

June 26, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
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
A medical respite room in Macon's new Central City Apartments.

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New Macon apartments to offer affordability and medical respite for the unhoused

Macon's Central City Apartments will offer below-market rate rents to service workers and safe space for medical recovery for the unhoused.

May 21, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center shut its doors on Nov. 1, leaving the city 460 hospital beds poorer. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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Report: Atlanta begins removing homeless encampments from under bridges

Mayor Andre Dickens pledged to clear the encampments after numerous fires believed to have been set by unhoused people have damaged bridges and closed roadways in the city.

February 26, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center shut its doors on Nov. 1, leaving the city 460 hospital beds poorer. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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Report: Portion of Atlanta Medical Center to be used as temporary shelter

The former athletic club at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center will become a temporary emergency shelter for unhoused residents, according to a report by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

February 23, 2024
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  • Dyana Bagby
A man attempts to roll his home out of the way of a front end loader during a sweep of a homeless encampment in Macon in June of 2022.

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A growing unhoused population has been linked to rising overdose deaths. Supportive housing can help

“We don't want to make the mistake of saying, oh, homelessness is causing the deaths when it's this underlying opioid use disorder," said researcher from the University of Georgia David Bradford. 

February 16, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Atlanta City Councilmember Jason Winston looks on as Mayor Andre Dickens signs an executive order to utilize $4.6 million to help the city’s homeless population at a ceremony on Jan. 24 at city hall

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Atlanta mayor signs executive order to spend $4.6 million to help homeless

Mayor Andre Dickens signed an executive order on Wednesday morning to spend $4.6 million to expand shelters, sites, services, security, and warming centers for those experiencing homelessness in the city of Atlanta.

January 25, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
 A small fire re-ignited with hand sanitizer as an accelerate warms Conta Price’s feet on a 28 degree morning in Macon in late November.

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As winter sets in, Macon-Bibb County struggles to shelter homeless people

A homeless person starting a fire to keep warm is thought to be the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant warehouse in the industrial district near downtown last week.

December 13, 2023
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  • Laura Corley
A votive candle for one of the members of the homeless community in Macon who died in the last year.

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In Macon, the preventable deaths of the unhoused, remembered

Friends of members of the homeless community in Macon who died in the last year remembered them at a memorial this week.

November 09, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
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 begins its annual count of unhoused people

Atlanta’s annual count of people facing homelessness is underway. The point in time or PIT count happens each January and determines federal funding.

January 24, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
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