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Brookhaven pioneers affordable housing requirement

Brookhaven is the first city in metro Atlanta to adopt a mandatory citywide inclusionary zoning ordinance as one way to tackle housing affordability.

Brookhaven pioneers an affordable housing requirement

Brookhaven is the first city in metro Atlanta to adopt a mandatory citywide inclusionary zoning ordinance as one way to tackle housing affordability. The new regulation is being praised by an Atlanta city councilmember who is working to create regional affordable housing policy guidelines, but is also being knocked by building professionals who say a […]

Brookhaven/Buford Hwy zoning includes affordability mandate

Brookhaven’s proposed Buford Highway Overlay zoning district will include an affordable housing mandate and apartment tenant protections as city leaders try to address gentrification of the corridor known for its international restaurants and immigrant residents.

Brookhaven’s Buford Highway zoning to include affordability mandate

Brookhaven’s proposed Buford Highway Overlay zoning district will include an affordable housing mandate and apartment tenant protections as city leaders try to address gentrification of the corridor known for its international restaurants and immigrant residents. Besides an affordable housing mandate, other recommendations are expected to include requiring apartment complex owners to give “extended notices” to […]

City of Atlanta releases housing affordability action plan, commits to $1Billion for affordable housing preservation or creation.

The city of Atlanta issued a “Housing Affordability Action Plan” on June 25, this article lists the plan’s main goals and “initiatives”.

Atlanta releases ‘Housing Affordability Action Plan’; touches on Buckhead issues

The city of Atlanta issued a “Housing Affordability Action Plan” on June 25, drawing together a diverse slate of tactics for improving residential stability and equity that touches on several recent concerns in Buckhead. The lengthy plan elaborates a major agenda of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ administration and ties together ideas compiled from a wide […]

Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot

A number of major U.S. Cities are making a shift in single family zoning amid mounting crises over housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change, and beginning to incorporate more required workforce housing.

Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot (Published 2019)

Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.