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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What Kamala Harris’ Economic Plan Could Mean for Black Atlanta Residents
Vice President Kamala Harris has made it a point to emphasize over the past few weeks her plan to tackle America’s rising cost of living if she’s elected president. In the midst of a two-day bus tour last week in Savannah, she sat down with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for her first […]
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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 […]
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Homeless Census Reveals a Rise in Unhoused Black Workers in Atlanta
Lower-income Black workers whose stagnant wages aren’t keeping up with rent prices are driving the growth in Atlanta’s homeless population, according to an annual count of the city’s unhoused. The ranks of Atlanta’s homeless grew to 2,867 people, a 7% spike from the 2,679 homeless people counted in January 2023 in Partners for HOME’s annual […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Owners Pay City Fine. Tenants Call For Demolition.
The owners of the Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments complex in southwest Atlanta paid more than $35,000 on Friday to settle an overdue civil penalty, but their tenants say that’s not enough. Some residents want the entire complex condemned and demolished after the city relocates them to better housing. “I would like to […]
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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 […]