National experts from the Housing Trust Fund Project of the Center for Community Change conducted a half-day communications training in Atlanta on November 1. Trainers Katy Heins and Michael Anderson provided insight learned from decades of research about the effectiveness of values based messaging and presented examples of how aligned messages and messengers have been…
Community Organizations Celebrate Fifth Third Bank’s $30 Billion Community Development Plan Atlanta, Ga. – Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc. commends the $30 billion Community Development Plan announced by Fifth Third Bank today. The Plan was developed in an agreement between Fifth Third and members and allies of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), which…
Neither Fannie nor Freddie purchased enough mortgage loans to meet their low- or very-low income home purchase goals. View Report Here
Enterprise Community Partners, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and Georgia ACT have launched the Atlanta Affordable Housing Preservation Challenge. The Preservation Challenge is an idea competition to generate innovative, implementable proposals that will help preserve affordable housing in the Atlanta region and throughout Georgia’s urban centers. This competition is open to all stakeholders with…
A newly released report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition highlights some of the alarming wait times for federal housing assistance and why expanded housing resources are so critical for our vulnerable populations. Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home
From NLIHC – Over the past five years, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) has launched criminal justice reform efforts that have made Georgia an exemplar in reentry innovation and recidivism reduction. Housing advocates have mobilized around Governor Deal’s initiatives and have used the momentum from his efforts to push for housing programs targeted towards reducing…
Georgia ACT joins Make Room, CHCDF, NLIHC and many other housing leaders and advocates demanding that the incoming Administration and Congress make affordable housing a priority. We’re sending 1 million messages to Congress to make sure our voices are heard loud and clear. Learn more about the campaign and pledge your support here.
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…