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The Georgia Power Building in downtown Atlanta. Credit: Warren LeMay/Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons. Early voting begins next week for two long-delayed Public Service Commission seats, but voters ...
Qualifying for the Public Service Commission races wrapped up in April with Commissioner Tim Echols, who represents a wide ...
On Tuesday, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens released his proposed budget for the city of Atlanta’s upcoming 2026 fiscal year – a whopping $3 billion proposal that must be passed by the end of June.
Get our free weekly newsletter on important housing and democracy news every Thursday. Sign up Atlanta Housing (AH) CEO Terri Lee struck an optimistic chord at the first-ever State of Atlanta Housing ...
An extended-stay motel in Decatur that became the center of a major court battle over tenant rights. (Credit: Google Maps) Legislation that would make it easier for hotel managers to eject long-term ...
This story is part of #ATLBudget, a civic engagement project in collaboration with the Center for Civic Innovation and other organizations. Together, we’re breaking down Atlanta’s budget process to ...
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to keep up with all things Housing and Democracy related in metro Atlanta. Sign up Maya (a pseudonym) lives in East Atlanta. The 41-year-old makes $95,000 a year as ...
The Atlanta City Council voted 14–1 on Monday evening in favor of a contentious bill to overhaul the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) – just hours after the city’s Inspector General Shannon ...
Get our free weekly newsletter on important housing and democracy news every Thursday. Sign up During a specially called meeting Thursday night in a basement conference room at Atlanta City Hall, the ...
Get our free weekly newsletter on important housing and democracy news every Thursday. Sign up When Wanda Sutton told me last week that three of her neighbors at The Melody had died since the city-run ...
One year after the city of Atlanta’s new rapid rehousing initiative kicked off with The Melody, a shipping-container village downtown, the effort has produced 63 affordable apartments for people ...