By David Pendered Oct. 16 – Safe, affordable housing is part of God’s plan for an orderly and civil society, according to the chair of a state House committee seeking solutions to Georgia’s housing shortage. State Rep. Dale Washburn (R-Macon) placed the housing issue in an ecclesiastical framework in his opening and closing remarks during […]
Affordable Housing
Environment
MARTA, sustainability and COP27 climate summitBy David Pendered Oct. 9 – When global leaders meet in Egypt to discuss the status of the Paris Climate Accord, metro Atlanta’s contribution to meeting certain goals will be noted as MARTA’s efforts on sustainability and affordable housing. These topics are at the heart of discussions planned at the two-week climate summit known as […]
Affordable Housing
Time to rebuild a homebuilding industryBy David Pendered Aug. 14 – Metro Atlanta provides a case study of a home-building industry that hasn’t rebounded since its peak in 2004, Census data show. The phenomenon has widespread implications in the escalating effort to ease housing costs. For one, President Biden’s Housing Supply Action Plan, released May 16, envisions the private sector making […]
Affordable Housing
Reform zoning? Yes! Kill single family zoning? No!By Mike Dobbins July 20 – Many people don’t get zoning. Efforts to reform it abound. This report aims to help people better understand zoning and its relationship to affordable housing. In Atlanta and around the country, zoning has become a hot topic. People are blaming zoning for all manner of ills, most prominently now for the […]
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More Atlantans compete for dwellings as ATL homebuilding slumpsBy David Pendered July 14 – There’s no end in sight to spiraling housing costs in the City of Atlanta, judging from new estimates in population growth and Atlanta’s own prediction of a double-digit slump in residential construction. The city added 5,070 new residents in calendar year 2021, according to a population growth estimate released […]
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How to provide affordable homes in metro Atlanta through creative use of $1.2 trillion infrastructure billBy Mike Dobbins June 9 – The Atlanta Regional Commission is to conduct a webinar Friday to evaluate ways metro Atlanta could access and use some of the $1.2 trillion in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed by Congress and signed into law Nov. 15, 2021 by President Biden. The legislation has tremendous potential […]
