Addressing Black voters’ economic concerns, including the higher cost of housing and child care, is among the top priorities for state Democratic lawmakers ahead of the Georgia General Assembly’s upcoming legislative session, which begins Monday. Democratic Party leaders in the state legislature, including state Rep. Carolyn Hugley, D-Columbus, say their largely Black voting base made […]
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Home for the Holidays: Former Residents of ‘Slum’ Housing Glow Up in New Apartments
The aroma of Fabuloso and other cleaning products brought smiles to the faces of Crystal Brown and her two young daughters on Saturday while they showed off their new two-bedroom home inside the Overlook Ridge Apartments complex in West Atlanta’s Harland Terrace neighborhood. The gated, luxury property features a sizable community pool, a fitness center, […]
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Atlanta Ranked as Best U.S. City for Black Homebuyers
This story was originally published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. New research published earlier this month found Atlanta is the best city for Black people who want to get on the housing ladder. But it also reinforced findings on the gulf between white and Black homeownership in the U.S. The report published by Columbia, Missouri-based Mortgage Research […]
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Extended-Stay Hotels Offer Relief From Homelessness, but Can Lead to Health Problems for Kids
This article was published by KFF Health News. STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of Atlanta, live in one. The children, Deas said, often have been exposed to […]
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City Judge to Visit Fairburn & Gordon Apartments to Assess ‘Structural Integrity’
The Atlanta judge who has spent the last five months hearing how poor the living conditions are at the Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments complex in southwest Atlanta has decided to see the place for himself. “This [property] is a handful of decades old,” Municipal Judge Christopher T. Portis said Thursday morning during […]
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Emotional Fairburn & Gordon Town Hall Spurs Look Into Owners’ Other Properties
“We’re human! The way y’all treat us?! [It’s] like we’re dirt!” Deborah Love shouted at one of the accused slumlord owners of her rundown apartment complex late Wednesday afternoon during an arranged town hall meeting in southwest Atlanta. “We have rights!” Love continued, shaking as tears streamed down her face. Other meeting participants and organizers […]
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Mayor Dickens Proposes $60 Million to Combat Homelessness
Mayor Andre Dickens’ proposal to invest $60 million into affordable housing seeks to address Atlanta’s ongoing housing crisis by building 700 new affordable units by the end of 2025. “This would be the single largest investment in homelessness in Atlanta’s history,” Dickens said Tuesday at a Woodruff Park press conference. Despite average rent prices declining […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Tenants to Address Owners Over Dilapidated Conditions
Traumatized, low-income tenants from Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments will finally get the chance to confront the owners of their troubled West Atlanta complex next month after spending years living there in extremely hazardous conditions. Partnership for Southern Equity, a local social justice nonprofit, worked with city officials to arrange the meeting between […]
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‘You Are A Slumlord!’: Fairburn & Gordon Tenants Clash With Owners
Cherry Gary didn’t mince words Wednesday morning during a tense Municipal Court of Atlanta confrontation with one of her landlords. “You are a slumlord! … And everything y’all have needs to crumble!” Gary told Behzad “Ben” Beroukhai, one of the co-owners of A&B Apartments LLC, the parent company of the troubled Fairburn & Gordon I […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Tenants Confront Owners Face-To-Face After Hearing
A pair of Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments tenants finally got the chance to confront the owners of their notoriously dilapidated southwest Atlanta complex face-to-face Thursday morning. Brothers Behzad “Ben” Beroukhai and Abraham “Abe” Beroukhai — co-owners of Fairburn & Gordon’s parent company, A&B Apartments LLC — met privately with two of their […]
