Daily Archives: August 31, 2018

A potential plan for the mayor’s $1 billion affordable housing promise

Last October, a month before the mayoral election, then candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms pledged $1 billion toward affordable housing. Soon after, a group of stakeholders – researchers, housing developers, community advocates, city employees – quietly came together to try and come up with a plan.

Task force: City of Atlanta should invest $1 billion in affordable housing

HouseATL’s goals are for $500 million in public resources and $500 million in private resources to be invested in 24,000 new and preserved affordable housing units over the next eight years.