Atlanta's Department of City Planning thinks its Zoning 2.0 rewrite is ready to be passed. They've proposed a massive overhaul in the legal text behind our city's zoning, but it's not going to make it easier to build housing! This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape our city and reverse our housing crisis. With the right changes, Zoning 2.0 can help make housing more affordable, atta…
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What’s Happening: Turner Monumental AME Church is proposing a 47-unit permanent supportive housing development at Hallman & Howard Streets. It would provide safe, stable homes for seniors 62+ living on low incomes (50% of Area Median Income) - helping longtime neighbors age in place as housing costs rise, with a focus on those that have experienced homelessness.Atlanta Civic Circle reported on th…
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New Tree Protection Ordinance Adds Big Costs to New HousingWhat is happening?The City of Atlanta is rewriting its Tree Protection Ordinance. In pursuit of a city-wide forest canopy coverage of 50%, this new law will set new stricter requirements and higher fees for homeowners and property developers to maintain or remove trees on their land. The current draft is poised to add serious costs and hu…
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We need your help to give the final push for City Council approval of new homes and businesses on the BeltLine at Amsterdam Walk.If you are feeling deja vu, YES this is the third time we asked you to help support this project. The NIMBYs are making a last ditch effort to block almost 1,000 new homes (20% will be permanently affordable) because they want their part of the BeltLine to remain an exc…
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The Mayor's office of planning is proposing a new definition of "household" which will halve the number of unrelated people who are legally allowed to live together. Currently up to 6 unrelated roommates can live together in a single home or apartment. Mayor Dickens' administration plans to reduce that to only 3.This change will make life tremendously harder for thousands of Atlantans who rely on…
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What's happening?A mixed-use development is being proposed along the Beltline next to Piedmont Park in the Virginia-Highland and Morningside-Lenox neighborhoods and will be considered this Thursday by the Atlanta Zoning Review Board. Despite being approved by the neighborhood associations, NPU F recommended against the rezoning. Show your support by writing a letter to the Zoning Review Board…
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What's happening?A new mixed-use development is being proposed along the Beltline next to Piedmont Park, in the Virginia-Highland and Morningside-Lenox neighborhoods.The proposed development would add:+ 900 new apartments in a transit-friendly, walkable neighborhood+ 180 of these apartments reserved as permanently affordable housing (at 80% AMI)+ 90k SF of Beltline-oriented retail (12.5% of retai…
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Atlanta's Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) could chart the future for our city for the next 5 years. The Department of City Planning is leading an 18-month planning process to update the current Vision and Goals, Needs and Opportunities, Policies and Actions of Atlanta's CDP, also known as Plan A. We want to make sure that the Department of City Planning knows that we want abundant housing ac…
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What legislation is being proposed?Atlanta Councilmember Marci Overstreet has proposed a new zoning ordinance that would ban new single-family homes under 750 sq. ft. unless the property is granted a “Special Use Permit” by the Atlanta City Council. Currently, small homes are allowed in all neighborhoods - just like larger ones! - and are a valuable tool used today by nonprofits and developers to…
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Atlanta leadership understands that we have a housing crisis. However, when it is time to support moving a housing development forward, our decisions and processes don't reflect this dire need. Exhibit A: 1526 Hardee Street. This is a proposed development for 30 townhomes in the Edgewood Neighborhood, less than 10 minutes from the Edgewood Candler Park station. This development has been sitting i…
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We are calling on the City Council to pass quick-fix zoning legislation that can help deliver more housing now! There are two modest solutions that could go a long way to deliver more housing and support affordability in our region: Easing restrictions on accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and eliminating minimum parking requirements would create thousands of additional affordable rentals and starte…
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What if I told you that Fulton County is leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table every year, money that could be used to fill gaps in affordable housing, for a better-funded Grady, to better support our schools and teachers? The answer is staring at us in the Atlanta skyline! While you are getting priced out of your home with higher and higher property taxes, some of the biggest, mos…
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Our friends at the Atlanta Land Trust are hard at work bringing new missing middle housing options (a duplex and 2 ADUs) to the West End. This project will deliver permanently affordable homeownership in a historic district at prices nearly half the going rate in the neighborhood. However, the property needs to be rezoned to allow these homes to get built. Despite this project receivi…
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Our friends at the Atlanta Land Trust are hard at work bringing new missing middle housing options (a duplex and 2 ADUs) to the West End. This project will deliver permanently affordable homeownership in a historic district at prices nearly half the going rate in the neighborhood. However, the property needs to be rezoned to allow these homes to get built. Despite this project receiving support f…
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Peoplestown has a great opportunity to create more housing options for our low-income and formerly unhoused neighbors, but we need your support!A developer is requesting public funding from the City of Atlanta to build 37 homes, 31 of which are for low-income individuals with 7 reserved for individuals transitioning out of homelessness.Despite the Mayor’s commitment to building 20,000 new afforda…
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Across race, place, and party, we deserve leaders who follow through on their commitments and act honorably in our interests. After two years of meetings and spending more than $110,000 of taxpayer money, the Clarkston City Council has an opportunity to pass much-needed zoning updates that will ensure the people who call our city home can afford to stay here, and that they will have abundan…
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Reynoldstown has a great opportunity to create more housing options for our unhoused neighbors, but we need your support!A developer is requesting public funding from the City of Atlanta to provide 42 people experiencing homelessness with their own studio apartments. On-site counselors will work full-time to help residents receive other benefits (SNAP, Social Security, etc), coordinate dental and…
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The Atlanta Metro’s severe housing shortage is causing skyrocketing homelessness and poverty, crippling our economy, and leading to debilitating commutes that exacerbate our global climate crisis. These impacts fall disproportionately on our city’s low-income workers and families, and disproportionately deny communities of color access to opportunity. If we strive to be a society that advances ra…
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The Atlanta Metro’s severe housing shortage is causing skyrocketing homelessness and poverty, crippling our economy, and leading to debilitating commutes that exacerbate our global climate crisis. These impacts fall disproportionately on our city’s low-income workers and families, and disproportionately deny communities of color access to opportunity. If we strive to be a society that advances ra…
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Atlanta is working on Zoning 2.0, the first full update of the zoning code in 40 years. The zoning ordinance isn’t just a dry legal document: it defines the rules and tools that will guide the city’s growth and change, impacting every property on every street in every single neighborhood. The zoning of today will determine the city we’ll get over the next years, decades, or even generations. Wha…
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What if I told you there was a readily available source of funds to fill gaps from affordable housing, a better-funded Grady, to better support for our schools and teachers? The answer is staring at us in the Atlanta skyline! Some of the biggest, high-profile developments are not paying their fair share of taxes! The Atlanta Magazine just laid out the case that Fulton County residents are short m…
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Decatur is becoming increasingly unaffordable and exclusive. In the last 12 months, the median price of a home sold in Decatur was $599,333!! If we don't make some important changes, and quickly, the cost of entry will go up and up, and only the wealthiest among us will be able to enjoy everything that Decatur has to offer.Right now, the City of Decatur is considering 2 zoning proposals to begin …
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On the northwest corner of Roswell Road and Allen Road, there is currently a Napa Auto Repair Center. There is a proposal to rezone the site to build a 6-story, mixed-use development that includes office, retail, and 199 luxury multifamily units. The site is currently zoned to build up to a 3-story building to be used for multifamily, so the city needs to approve the request to increase the heigh…
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It's been 7 months since our last Planning Commissioner resigned, and Mayor Andre Dickens still has not appointed a replacement. Mayor Dickens is dragging his feet on this crucial position, forcing the Planning Department to twiddle their thumbs and continue down a path of the status quo. The status quo is unacceptable: rental prices are astronomically high and getting higher; home prices are ris…
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Atlanta is facing a housing crisis, with rent and home prices increasing by double digits since just last year. We need an urgent response from our City.Right now, Atlanta's City Council is developing and debating the City's new budget, which they will pass later this month. Our City’s budget is a moral document and should reflect the priorities and needs of the people.Atlanta’s new proposed affo…
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Rents are rising, but there's something you can do about it! More homes mean that renters have more options when they're looking for a place to live, and more options mean more bargaining power against a potential rent increase. An exciting project called the Bag Factory will bring nearly 300 new homes to the East Lake neighborhood in western Dekalb County. The Dekalb County Commission needs to h…
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Roswell Mayor & City Council has added a moratorium on conditional use applications for multifamily development as an agenda item to their City Council Meeting for 7pm tomorrow, March 28th. What does that mean? If passed, effective immediately the City of Roswell will no longer accept applications to build multifamily housing for 90 days until more permanent limitations are made to the city code.…
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HB 1406 is moving through the Georgia House which would dictate how cities and counties could re-zone single-family property to multifamily property, in turn making the process longer, more arduous, and creating more hurdles for municipalities to jump through in order to make housing more affordable for residents.The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Governmental Affairs Committee TODAY: Take …
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In 2018, a report was commissioned by the DeKalb County Chief Operating Officer and the Director of the DeKalb County Department of Community Development to assist the county’s Affordable Housing Task Force in gaining a deeper understanding of affordable housing challenges in DeKalb County. The top two recommendations out of that report (which you can read here) were to create a Chief Housing Off…
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House Bill 408 would provide tenants with seven days to cure any lease violation, saving tenants from dealing with an eviction on their record. 40 other states already have provisions like this and it is time Georgia joins them in providing this avenue to tenants. You can read more about the legislation here.
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The City of Atlanta’s own Department of City Planning has established that we need more homes to welcome growing families and newcomers in the coming years. In order to accommodate growth and encourage more walkable and less car-centric neighborhoods, we support the City Council’s efforts to encourage the development of more homes, especially near public transportation hubs.Atlanta’s residential …
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The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor ignited conversations across the county on structural and institutionalism racism in our communities. It's a critical conversation - one that our neighbors should be having, but many cannot, due to censorship on Nextdoor, the world’s largest neighborhood social network.Many Nextdoor users reported that posts in support of Black Lives …
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It’s May 1st - the rent is due and many Georgia families aren’t going to have the funds to pay it. They have nowhere to turn, and our state leadership is failing to act to prevent the coming wave of evictions and increased housing insecurity and chronic homelessness. Although a number of cities in our state have placed a moratorium on evictions - this isn’t enough. Rent hasn’t been canceled - it’…
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House Bill 980 will keep local governments from unfairly limiting how many people can live in a house. It requires local boards to use the national HUD standard for defining families -- one that is broad and open. If the new law passes, it can help reduce inequality and open affordable housing for all.The bill is bipartisan. Democrats like it because it helps reduce inequality. Republicans like i…
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Send a letter to Atlanta City Council to let them know you support safe, stable, and affordable homes for seniors.
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