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Task force lays out affordability proposal at housing forum

HouseATL, a task force comprised of members from more than 60 city and regional organizations creating affordable housing recommendations for the city, presented its latest draft of recommendations this morning at the Atlanta Regional Housing Forum’s quarterly meeting. The proposal is aimed to help fulfill Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s campaign promise to spend $1 billion…

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.