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From AJC.com – A watchdog arm of the Treasury Department announced plans to audit the implementation of a federal program created to aid homeowners struggling with their mortgages in Georgia, with an eye toward determining whether minority neighborhoods have been properly served. The federal watchdog said it will hone in on three Atlanta-area counties — DeKalb, Fulton and Clayton…
Georgia ACT supports the work of CDCs and other community-based and constituency-based nonprofits in developing and preserving affordable housing. Georgia ACT is particularly interested in advancing the field’s pursuit of scale. Georgia ACT has limited funding from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation to provide technical assistance to member nonprofit development organizations located in the non-metropolitan…
HUD is currently proposing the use of Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in administering the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program for some metro areas. With this rule, HCV tenants would receive a subsidy adequate enough for them to move into areas of higher opportunity and lower poverty. Read the rule (PDF) Comments are…
This month Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, released A Better Way – his vision for some of our country’s greatest challenges. In it included a poverty plan that proposes cuts to critical housing programs. Immediate backlash ensued from many including, Rep. Barbara Lee of California and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. You can find…
In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment at the HUD-determined Fair Market Rent and utilities of $949/mo. in metro Atlanta, renters need to earn $18.25 per hour. This is Metro Atlanta’s 2016 Housing Wage, revealed in a national report released today. The report, Out of Reach 2016, was jointly released by the National Low…
Victory was sweet for affordable housing advocates who quickly mobilized over the course of 72 hours in the wake of reporting by Atlanta Progressive News, as the Atlanta City Council’s Community Development/Human Resources Cmte (CD/HR) stripped a controversial ordinance of language that would have eliminated the City of Atlanta’s existing affordable housing goals and would…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia ACT, and the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning hosted a reception in March that featured two outstanding housing experts examining the increasing hardships faced by low income renters. Dr. Matthew Desmond shared findings from his book on the consequences of evictions, once common outcome faced…
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The State of Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is currently preparing its Federal Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Action Plan Goals and Method of Distribution that details how the State proposes to use the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Programs. Each program…