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…
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In the past decade, across the United States, there has been a substantial increase in requirements and incentives for green development. However, many states in the Southeast have fallen behind this national trend. Read more. A link to the Executive Summary can be found here.