Forklift driver Craig Dollar and his wife Kimberly, an Atlanta Public Schools teacher, have dreamed of buying an affordable home in Atlanta for their family since 2006. But saving enough is a challenge in a metro area where rent prices have risen three times faster than wages since 2019 and the median home price has […]
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Reimagining Bankhead Courts: Former Residents Weigh In
Atlanta Housing has extended the deadline for public input on a project to revitalize Bankhead Courts, a former public housing project in northwest Atlanta that the city demolished in 2011. The agency, which is Georgia’s largest housing authority, said in an announcement last week that the decision to push back the original June 7 deadline […]
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The Civic Center Redevelopment Could Start This Year. Is 1,500 Housing Units Enough?
This story was originally published on May 22 by the Atlanta Civic Circle. Subscribe to their newsletter here. Crews could break ground on the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center’s long-overdue redevelopment before the end of the year, kicking off a potentially 13-year plan to bring new restaurants, retail, office space, a hotel, and around 1,500 […]
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Feds Find 31 ‘Life-Threatening’ Issues at Fairburn & Gordon Apartments
Shock and fire hazards, suspected mold, and an “extensive cockroach infestation” were among the housing code violations officials discovered at Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments in West Atlanta late last year, according to an inspection report obtained by Capital B Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gave the owners of […]
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City Judge Slaps $25,000 Fine on Owners of Troubled Fairburn & Gordon Apartments
A judge has ordered the owners of West Atlanta’s Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments to pay a $25,000 fine as a penalty for the more than 300 housing code and nuisance violations city inspectors have found at the residential complex. Municipal Judge Christopher T. Portis levied the fine Thursday morning after attorneys for […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Tenants Receive Troubling Letter From Landlord
Section 8 tenants waiting to be moved out of the “highly hazardous” Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments complex in west Atlanta are demanding answers after receiving a concerning letter from their landlord about their impending relocation. Crystal Brown is one of the Fairburn & Gordon residents who found a letter attached to her […]
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Will Kemp Sign Tenant Rights and Homeless Trust Fund Bills Into Law?
Housing advocates want to know whether Gov. Brian Kemp will sign two bills to address long-running housing issues across Georgia: tenants’ rights and the state’s growing homeless population. The first bill, HB 404, or the Safe at Home Act, would bar landlords from requiring more than two months’ rent for a security deposit and establish […]
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Homelessness, Housing, and Inequality Dominate Dickens’ Speech
Mayor Andre Dickens highlighted his administration’s efforts to address Atlanta’s affordable housing and homelessness crises in his annual State of the City address Monday morning. Dickens told attendees inside Midtown’s Woodruff Arts Center that his administration is well on its way toward creating 20,000 affordable housing units by the year 2030. That includes more than […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Tenants Say They Look Forward to Moving Out of Unsafe Housing
Some residents of a troubled Atlanta housing complex say they welcome the news that they may soon be relocated. “I’m so happy,” said Linda Ford, a resident of the Fairburn & Gordon Apartments, when she learned U.S. housing officials plan to terminate their contracts with Fairburn & Gordon Apartments after the owners failed to bring […]
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Fairburn & Gordon to Lose HUD Funding Over ‘Unacceptable Physical Conditions’
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to end taxpayer funding to the owners of west Atlanta’s Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments due to extremely poor living conditions at the complex unless rapid repairs are made, multiple sources told Capital B Atlanta on Friday. HUD confirmed via email Friday afternoon that […]