Stories tagged "Housing"
Community Notebook: Clarkston residents weigh in on housing priorities

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

Community Notebook: June 19, 2025

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“It’s not affordable for me”

The Tri-Cities were once hidden gems for Atlantans in search of close-knit communities and reasonably priced housing. But, recently, residents wonder how much longer they’ll be able to call these places home.

The nine-hole Tradition course at Heritage Golf Links in Gwinnett County's unincorporated Norcross.
What should be done with Heritage Golf Links?

Where a residential developer sees available, open greenspace on which to build, residents envision a cheaply-built, congested traffic nightmare.

How Lakewood Heights residents end up unhoused

Residents see the neighborhood’s vacant properties and wonder why some community members get shut out of housing

No Place to Call Home: Housing Insecurity in Bankhead

Residents in Bankhead and Grove Park want the City to come up with better solutions for supporting the area’s unhoused population

How tenants at a southeast Atlanta complex are organizing for fair housing
Miracle Fletcher and Velissa Sims live at Trestletree Village Apartments, but they say they’ve found it hard to call the complex home.   Sims, a 32-year-old mother and childhood educator who speaks with a quiet intensity, has lived at the Ormewood Park complex for 12 years. But for six of those years, she says she’s [...]