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Atlanta Council Considers Affordable Housing Ordinance Drafted by APN Editor

December 2, 2014 ANNA SIMONTON Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — At the Monday, November 24, 2014 Meeting of the Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the City Council of Atlanta, a new proposed ordinance for Affordable Housing Impact Statements received a first reading. APN’s News Editor–the present writer–drafted the ordinance, in consultation with Chairman Andre Dickens (Post 3-at-large), as part of a law school paper, through Gonzaga University […]

Beaty: “Angels” Are Helping Homeless Task Force

October 6, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Anita Beaty, Executive Director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force of the Homeless, tells Atlanta Progressive News that “several angels” have been helping the shelter. The Task Force was able to pay approximately 580,000 dollars in past due water bills to the City of Atlanta last week, on Friday, September 26, 2014. Beaty said the angels have […]

LGBTQI Youth Homeless Shelter Expands with Thrift Store, Housing Plans

September 29, 2014 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — The Lost-n-Found Youth homeless shelter founded by local activists and drag queens has expanded in recent months with a new thrift store and drop-in center, and is currently planning to expand their housing component. Lost n Found was founded in 2011, with street outreach to “homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths to age 26,” as […]

Georgia Supreme Court Takes Homeless Task Force Case, as City Threatens Water Shut-off Again

September 20, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On August 29, 2014, the Supreme Court of Georgia issued a ruling in two related emergency appeals brought by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. The court accepted the Task Force’s direct appeal; and dismissed the other appeal, an application for immediate review, as duplicative. The appeals case going forward is S14M1956. Meanwhile, […]

Judge Allows Eviction Proceedings in Task Force Lawsuit, but Only in Superior Court

August 10, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Friday, August 08, 2014, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall issued an order lifting the stay of dispossessory, allowing Premium Funding Solutions (PFS) to pursue dispossessory proceedings against the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless; however, only in Fulton County Superior Court. Because the Superior Court rules require related cases to be […]

Fulton County’s Closure of Two Shelters Has Domino Effect (UPDATE 1)

July 14, 2014 MEGHAN SIMONS Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — The struggle to get by for Atlanta’s most vulnerable citizens became more difficult this summer after two emergency homeless shelters serving Atlanta and Fulton County quietly shuttered their doors due to funding cuts to homeless services in the County’s 2014 budget. Jefferson Place, a 150-bed men’s homeless shelter, began notifying men in May 2014 that they […]

Hearing on Dispossessory Scheduled in Homeless Task Force Lawsuit

June 23, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — In yet another abrupt about-face from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall, the judge has ordered a July 11, 2014 hearing to reconsider whether to grant leave for Premium Funding Solutions (PFS) to seek a dispossessory, or eviction, of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, from the shelter they operate in downtown Atlanta, according […]

Possible Bribery of Atlanta Official Seen in Special Master’s Ruling in Task Force Lawsuit

April 12, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — A former Atlanta City Councilwoman who served as a Policy Advisor to then-Mayor Shirley Franklin may have accepted a bribe to help carry out a conspiracy by downtown business interests to attempt to sabotage the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Special Master Frank Strickland ruled in an Order dated January 25, 2014, Atlanta Progressive […]

Special Master Sees Possible Torts in Homeless Task Force Lawsuit

March 23, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Special Master Frank Strickland, who was appointed to make conclusions of fact and law, and recommendations, to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall in the lawsuits concerning the business community and City of Atlanta’s well-documented conspiracy to sabotage the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, has issued an order that is quite favorable to […]

Urban Institute Sees Deplorable Affordable Housing Crisis in Atlanta

March 9, 2014 BARBARA PAYNE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — The Urban Institute has released an interactive map showing where the nation’s affordable housing crisis is most acute. Not surprisingly, Fulton and DeKalb Counties are among the worst, in terms of the availability of housing that actual people can afford. The Urban Institute states: “Many Americans struggle to afford a decent, safe place to […]

GDOT Sends Bulldozers for 40 Homeless Camping Under I-75/85 and I-20

January 17, 2014 BARBARA PAYNE Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) sent out two bulldozers to the underpass of I-75/85 and I-20 in order to eliminate around ten to twelve camping tents occupied by homeless individuals. Atlanta Progressive News reader, and former candidate for Atlanta City Council Post 2-at-large, Weslee Knapp, observed the incident and […]

Activists, “Sisters” Behind New LGBTQI Youth Homeless Shelter

July 11, 2013 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Lost-n-Found Youth, Inc. is an Atlanta-based nonprofit corporation whose mission is to take homeless youths who are bisexual, homosexual, or transgender off the streets and transition them into more permanent housing arrangements. Lost-n-Found (LnF) was founded by activists Rick Westbrook of the Atlanta Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Art Izzard of the Queer Justice […]

EDITORIAL: Race, Poverty, and Nonprofits in Atlanta, a Devastating Critique

June 16, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — How is it that in Atlanta, Georgia, the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, the powers of corporate wealth and the bourgeoisie have managed to destroy public housing, decimate low-income communities, privatize public schools, privatize Grady Hospital, enact draconian anti-panhandling legislation, and carry out a war upon low-income people, despite the presence of so many non-profit […]

Task Force for the Homeless Loses Federal Appeal against City of Atlanta

January 17, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES

(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless in the shelter’s appeal of an earlier federal court ruling in its case against the City of Atlanta. The federal court ruling of US District Court Judge Thrash, dated September 21, 2011, had granted summary judgment […]

(IPS) Still Learning Katrina’s Lessons, Seven Years Later

December 15, 2012 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/seven-years-after-katrina-preparing-for-the-next-disaster/ ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 14 2012 (IPS) – Many residents are still rebuilding their lives seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Those who are able are looking ahead and organising so that they will be better prepared […]

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