By David Pendered HouseATL has expanded its Advisory Board as it focuses on new efforts to expand beyond Atlanta’s city limits, help Black and brown families purchase homes and establish a formal visioning plan. HouseATL announced Wednesday that, as a result of voting at the group’s Feb. 10 meeting, HouseATL now has a board with […]
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Wealthy benefit when land rezoned for more dwellings: paperBy David Pendered Feb. 12 – Allowing more homes to be built on land once zoned for single-family detached houses benefits the wealthy and educated, while homes of existing residents lose value, according to a paper released by scholars with Wharton business school and Princeton University. The paper could provide guidance in Decatur. The City […]
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HouseATL: Expanding efforts across five countiesBy David Pendered Feb. 8 – HouseATL has a capacity crowd of about 150 signed up for Friday’s meeting to discuss matters including the plan to expand its work in promoting affordable housing from the city limits of Atlanta to all five of metro Atlanta’s core counties. The expansion plan calls for extending the organization’s […]
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By the numbers: Georgia’s jobs boom, housing shortageBy David Pendered Jan. 29 – Census data on Georgia’s housing units and population, and Gov. Brian Kemp’s announcements on the number of new jobs, provide perspective on Kemp’s proposed $35.7 million in state funding for affordable housing. A significant housing shortage appears to be on the horizon in some areas of the state. Census […]
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Details: Kemp’s $35.7 million plan for affordable housingBy David Pendered Jan. 16 – Gov. Brian Kemp’s $35.7 million proposal to fund affordable housing initiatives relies on redirecting state funds in an authority created by the state in 2000 to allocate some of Georgia’s share of the settlement with tobacco companies over health costs of smoking-related illnesses. The proposed structure of the Rural […]
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Fannie Mae aids Atlanta senior housing projectBy David Pendered Jan. 11 – The difficulty of developing affordable housing for seniors is evident in a project that is close to securing financing after more than two years of work by a wing of Atlanta’s development authority and Atlanta Housing, and their private partners. Some residents of a neighborhood south of Greenbriar Mall, in […]
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‘Just build more’ won’t curb Atlanta’s high housing costsBy Mike Dobbins Dec. 23 – In Atlanta, housing supply is not the problem. Affordability is. In the last 10 years, about 35,000 housing units have been built on properly zoned sites. The population has grown by about 50,000 people, so about 1½ persons per unit. Virtually none of these units, however, is affordable for […]
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HUD panel features two Atlanta housing leadersBy David Pendered Dec. 19 –A recent HUD panel on the influence of institutional investors on the housing market featured a Georgia Tech researcher and the mayor of College Park. Their inclusion on the panel underscores HUD’s recognition of the Sunbelt in general, and metro Atlanta in particular, as a hotspot for institutional investors to […]
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Affordable Housing along Transit CorridorsBy Mike Dobbins Dec. 1 – Below I outline how transit agencies might use funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to address the equity purpose of the act in concert with meeting the affordable housing crisis. Lower income people, often lacking cars yet more bound to their work locations, suffer greater […]
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Infrastructure funds to support affordable housingBy Mike Dobbins Nov. 13 – The lack of affordable shelter is a growing national crisis. The City of Atlanta, thankfully, rejected a misguided effort in October 2021 fall to upzone single family neighborhoods, a strategy that has proven to fail affordability aspirations in other cities. Here’s what we’re exploring instead: Identify sources of massive public […]
