Ciara Daniel thought someone was breaking into her family’s home when her 12-year-old son, Charles, woke her up in a panic. “He woke up screaming, holding his ears, shaking his head,” the single mother of two recalled when Capital B Atlanta visited her three-bedroom trailer at the Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park in Irondale. In reality, […]
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This Trailer Park Helped Make Atlanta the Eviction Capital of America
Stephania Melton has been fighting to keep a roof over her head ever since she and her four children moved into their three-bedroom trailer in the Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park more than two years ago. The 44-year-old cook and kitchen supervisor from Alabama said the trouble began around March of 2024 after payments for […]
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Two Housing Bills Could Shape Whether Black Families Stay Housed in Atlanta
Atlanta became the eviction capital of the United States last year. And the fate of two bills aimed at combatting homelessness and increasing affordable housing construction across Georgia may be decided today as state lawmakers convene on the last day of this year’s legislative session, also known as Sine Die. Housing justice advocates say enacting […]
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The Black Mecca’s Climate Plan Is Costing Black Atlanta Residents Their Homes
This is the first story in a series on “climate gentrification” in Black neighborhoods. Support for this series was provided by The Neal Peirce Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting journalism on ways to make cities and their larger regions work better for all people. ATLANTA — By the time Atlanta hosts a World Cup […]
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Georgia Lawmakers With Real Estate Ties Are Writing the State’s Housing Laws
This article was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, where Chauncey Alcorn and Adam Mahoney are 2025-2026 Ida B. Wells fellows. When Kenneth Porter moved to Atlanta from Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2016 to advance his career in the entertainment industry, he rented part of a two-bedroom townhouse on Atlanta’s eastside for […]
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Warnock-Backed Bill Targets Corporate Home Buyers Pricing Out Black Families
Private companies buying up homes in metro Atlanta have made the American dream of homeownership unattainable for many families, and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said Black Georgians seeking to buy their first homes have been hurt more than most. Investors own at least 25% of all the single family rental properties in Atlanta, the largest […]
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Bills Aimed at Lowering Housing Costs for Black Georgians Face Crucial Deadline
Albany State University sophomore Leah Cowen dreams of owning a home in Georgia one day, but worries she’ll never be able to afford it. “It’s so important to me, because I do have parents who pay mortgages,” Cowen, 20, told Capital B Atlanta. “Seeing how it’s affecting them personally, and knowing that I’m gonna have […]
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Eviction Crisis in Metro Atlanta Disproportionately Impacts Black Residents
Anxious. Annoyed. Angry. Those are just a few of the emotions expressed by the steady stream of Black folks seen walking in and out of the magistrate case information office inside the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Tuesday as some desperately sought legal aid before appearing in court for pending eviction cases. Metro Atlanta […]
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Atlanta Spent $60 Million to Address Homelessness, but the Crisis Persists
As the temperature dropped to around 35 degrees last Wednesday night, Yered Israel wasn’t sure where he’d be sleeping — or whether he’d sleep at all. The 36-year-old, self-identified unhoused man was sitting in the entryway of a Georgia State University garage with his belongings around 9 p.m. last week when he was approached by […]
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Advocates Say ‘Landlord Friendly’ Laws Are Fueling Evictions, Homelessness in Atlanta
Monae Edgerson Pettaway was already in a state of “financial crisis” before she was forced to move out of her one-bedroom apartment at McAuley Station in Atlanta in December. The 55-year-old disabled Atlanta native says the management team at the 170-unit apartment complex — located near Selena S. Butler Park in the city’s Sweet Auburn […]