1,323 8 minutes read Chicago. Liberation photo.
From Tampa Bay, Florida, to Portland, Oregon, from Los Angeles to Boston, people took to the streets Jan.30-Feb 1. They organized car caravans, speakouts and dropped banners demanding that the government immediately cancel the rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions.
Actions took place in 30 cities as national and local eviction moratoriums have only paused millions of evictions, and a third of the population can’t pay their bills and are unable to catch up with the rent. An eviction crisis looms that will hit oppressed communities, already especially affected by the pandemic, the hardest. Meanwhile, big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratoriums.
Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 1990s
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February 1995 This Gen X–heavy “Jobs” issue describes an early iteration of the gig economy.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’90s in 5 Scenes
A dig through our archives unearthed a cinematic rendering of Georgia just before the turn of the millennium
“The X-Files: Generation Xers aren’t so much breaking the old rules as making their own”
Affordable Housing Fund Boosts MARTA TOD Program Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
The aim of the Greater Atlanta Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Preservation Fund is to incentivize and provide gap funding for owners and landlords of affordable units near MARTA rail stations.
Morgan Stanley and National Equity Fund (NEF) are establishing a $100 million fund to support the long-term preservation of affordable housing within a one-mile radius of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail stations, MARTA reported. It will help boost the agency’s transit-oriented development (TOD) program.
The aim of the Greater Atlanta Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Preservation Fund is to incentivize and provide gap funding for owners and landlords of affordable units. It can be used to acquire real estate, to pay off an existing first mortgage, restructure existing gap financing or invest in minor capital impro
COVID is the latest test of the Westside’s resilience, impacting access to jobs and childcare. Some families are choosing between food, utilities, rent and medicines to make ends meet and are on the financial precipice. There is no fallback plan or safety net. What is resilience in the face of extreme financial hardship?
Pre-COVID, 40% of Americans did not have $400 in their bank accounts to cover emergency expenses. In the ongoing destruction of the twin pandemics of COVID and structural racism, the lack of a savings safety net during times of stress and disaster are particularly acute for Black and Latinx workers who have been disproportionately affected by job losses. Fifty-eight percent of Black and Latino families lack at least three months of savings and other assets to rely on. Howard University professor, William E. Spriggs, noted in a New York Times article that when “…30% of the population has no wealth, this has real implications…there isn’t a piggy bank. This