Nationally Renowned Panel of Land Use and Urban Planning Experts to Visit Atlanta February 24 – March 1 A group of nationally renowned land use, urban design and real estate experts representing the Urban Land Institute (ULI) will be visiting […]
Born out President Roosevelt’s Depression-era New Deal program in 1937, public housing authorities have played a critical role in housing low-income families across the country. Atlanta blazed the trail in public housing, opening the first government-owned housing project in 1936 […]
ATLANTA (January 23, 2019)—ULI Atlanta, an Urban Land Institute (ULI) district council, today announces Amanda Rhein is the new chair for the Livable Communities Council (LCC). Effective Jan. 1, 2019, Rhein is leading the council in its mission to improve […]
Down Payment Resource (DPR) is proud to announce John O’Callaghan, President and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) as the first recipient of the Beverly Faull Affordable Housing Leadership Award. The award, named in memory of accomplished […]
Photo above: Participants in a Green Infrastructure and Resilience Institute (GIRI) event create stormwater runoff relief with a rain garden. Here at Southface Institute, we’re committed to building better communities through consulting, workforce development and advocacy for sustainability. But there are […]
By: Atticus LeBlanc, PadSplit and Sarah Butler, Praxis3, co-chairs of ULI Atlanta’s Design for Affordability Taskforce What if a home could be designed and constructed in a way that provided long-term affordability while also being more profitable for builders or […]
By Pamela Henman, previously shared on Southface’s Journal This spring, thanks to a $5 million grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, global humanitarian organization CARE launched an interior renovation of its downtown Atlanta office building, which has served as its global […]
Join us December 5 for reflections with Atlanta’s housing pioneers Frank Alexander, Hattie B. Dorsey, Bruce Gunter and Mtamanika Youngblood. Followed by a look forward with today’s housing leaders and special remarks from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. For 30 years, housing stakeholders […]
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, unrepaired household leaks can waste nearly 1 trillion gallons of water annually nationwide. That’s enough water to fill about 40 million swimming pools and about 24 billion bathtubs and serve 11 million homes for […]
By: Meaghan Shannon-Vlkovic, Enterprise Community Partners and Daphne Bond-Godfrey, ULI Atlanta While its traffic-snarled highways are infamous across the nation, the Atlanta region has historically been commended as an affordable city offering more space to live and a strong job […]
