Atlanta Progressive News

(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 — “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 — 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 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 […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Democratic-led US House recently passed an appropriations, or funding, bill for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development [as well as the Department of Transportation] which would cut 55,000 rental vouchers for low-income families during Fiscal Year (2008), according to a report just released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). This could […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News celebrated the second anniversary since its founding on November 23, 2007. To commemorate this occasion, Matthew Cardinale, Founder of APN, has issued the following letter to our readers: Dear Readers, Two years! It’s now been two years since Atlanta Progressive News appeared on the Internet, we published our first story, and emailed it out […]

(APN) FORT BENNING — Three college students from Kennesaw State University were arrested at the protest of the School of the Americas, held in Fort Benning, Georgia, Sunday, November 19, 2007, for carrying white crosses that were said to be too large. The so-called White Cross Three include Matthew Boynton, 20, a sophomore in International Affairs; Ashley DeBelardino, 18, a freshman; […]

  (APN) ATLANTA — The Veterans for Peace Chapter 125 (VFP) and American Veterans for Equal Rights Georgia (AVER) are being censored by the Georgia Veterans Day Parade Association of Atlanta in the upcoming Veterans Day Parade to be held in downtown Atlanta on Sunday, November 11, 2007, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Both groups had their applications to participate […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Democratic Socialists of America are convening in Atlanta for their 2007 Annual Convention, from Friday, November 09, to Sunday, November 11, 2007. On the first night of the Convention, DSA members and local activists convened at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Union Hall for dinner and to hear a keynote speech by US Sen. […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), also a US Presidential candidate for 2008, will force the issue of impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the US House of Representatives next week, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Kucinich will issue a privileged resolution on impeachment in the US House. “The privileged resolution has priority status […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has officially processed two complaints made by resident association leaders, Diane Wright and Shirley Hightower, of Hollywood Courts and Bowen Homes public housing communities, respectively, according to documents concerning the investigations obtained by APN. What was originally a joint complaint by the two resident leaders, both officers on […]

Atlanta Voice Publisher was Partner in Public Housing Demolition (APN) ATLANTA — Janis Ware, the Publisher of The Atlanta Voice newspaper, a local Black newspaper, was a partner in the Atlanta Housing Authority’s redevelopment of the McDaniel-Glen public housing community, according to documents obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. Ms. Ware, in addition to publishing The Atlanta Voice, is the Executive […]