Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — WSB Channel 2 television news program misled the public on the status of evictions for the Bowen Homes public housing community in two reports on December 27, 2007. “Residents have until May 2008 to move so the City can demolish the complex,” anchor Amanda Rosseter said after a daytime report by John Cater. However, the US Department […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News is pleased to issue two endorsements in the upcoming Primary Elections for President of the United States. This year, the Board of Directors is making endorsements in both the Democratic and Green Party Primaries, even though in the State of Georgia the Green Party is currently not on the Primary ballot. For the Democratic […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Having moved up the demolition dates of three family projects serving mostly poor, Black families, Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) has begun notifying residents of their eviction plans and are deceiving them in the process, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The senior high-rise demolitions for Palmer House and Roosevelt House were postponed to 2009, while Bankhead Courts, Bowen […]

Additional reporting by Jonathan Springston. (APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council Members Felicia Moore and Jim Maddox engaged in a testy dispute on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, as the Community Development/Human Resources (CDHR) Committee voted to hold a resolution that would create a Task Force to study the effects of relocation on public housing residents. It is unclear how many […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia House Study Committee on Eyewitness Identification Procedure met for the final time December 13, 2007, to settle the details of draft legislation outlining minimum standards for eyewitness identification procedure. The Committee heard testimony from the Georgia Innocence Project (GIP), whose recent work helped exonerate John Jerome White, a man sentenced to life in prison for […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Patients, doctors, employees, and other advocates held a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol building December 12, 2007 urging Republican Governor Sonny Perdue to lead the way in securing annual State funding for Grady Memorial Hospital. “Grady is in a crisis because of what happened at the Gold Dome,” State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) said. “We […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “Your signatures are not forged. The signatures are not required,” Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) director Renee Glover told the City Council of Atlanta during a July 2007 Work Session on AHA’s campaign to demolish all remaining public housing in Atlanta, according to a video of the meeting on Channel 26, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Glover made […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A bipartisan Georgia House of Representatives study panel released draft legislation November 29, 2007, that, if eventually passed, would require minimum procedures for enhancing witness identification accuracy. Many of the bill’s requirements come directly from suggestions made during earlier testimony before the special study committee. For example, the person administering the lineup must be neutral and have […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) held two legally required public hearings on December 27, 2007, to let the public speak out on the proposed leasing of the Grady Health System to a nonprofit corporation. Attendance at the hearings was relatively low due to the current holiday season, and not only among the public. Only three FDHA Board […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Exclusive testimony by a whistleblower who formerly worked for the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) corroborates the case that AHA seems to have deceived the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regarding its consultation with the Resident Advisory Board (RAB Board) regarding their demolition applications for Jonesboro North, Jonesboro South, Inglewood Manor, U-Rescue Villa, and Leila […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council voted Monday, December 03, 2007, to first amend and then send back to Committee a resolution that would have created a Task Force to study the effects of the Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Quality of Life Initiative on public housing residents. It was thought the Council would take definitive action on the resolution […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) sent in five demolition applications to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) containing falsified documents, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. APN notified the City Council of Atlanta of this troubling revelation during the public comment period of the December 03, 2007, full Council meeting. APN obtained the documents through […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Housing Authority has not made an application to, or received an approval from, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, for several remaining public housing communities in Atlanta, including Palmer House and Roosevelt House, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. A City Council resolution proposed by Council Members Ivory Lee Young and Kwanza Hall, and […]

(APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, November 27, 2007, the Community Development and Human Resources Committee (CDHR) of the City Council of Atlanta approved a resolution to create a Housing Relocation Task Force (HRTF) to study the impact of public housing demolitions on residents and ask the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) to suspend the demolitions until the study is completed. The […]