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News Articles: affordable housing

If completed, a 2011 deal between the Atlanta Housing Authority and Integral Group could amount to a king-sized subsidy towards the construction of high-end, market-rate homes, and harm the city's efforts to create more affordable housing.

Atlanta Land Deal Angers People Who Want Affordable Housing

A controversial deal to require Atlanta's low-income housing authority to sell prime parcels of vacant land to a developer would hand them over at a ...

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Georgia State University plans to transform the 68-acre site of Turner Field into a college baseball and football stadium complex surrounded by private dorms, retail stores, restaurants and office space.

Turner Field Neighbors Divided Over Community Benefits Agreement

As Georgia State University and its development partners move forward on redeveloping downtown Atlanta’s Turner Field, neighbors of the former Atlanta...

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Tindall Heights is one of the oldest public housing projects in Macon, Ga. When it and the now demolished Oglethorpe Homes were built in 1940, Tindall Heights was for blacks only while Oglethorpe Homes was for whites only.

How Far Can You Get From Public Housing (With Help?)

The asbestos was already being removed from Tindall Heights by the time the politicians were ready to celebrate its demolition. Thelma Dillard was one...

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