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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff unveiled research Wednesday on the impact of out-of-state companies buying up Georgia homes for rental properties, as he continues to focus attention on the impact of institutional investors as part of a federal probe.
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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case to decide if housing authorities in the state are shielded from liability when tenants sue them over violent crime or other dangerous conditions. Christina Guy, a former tenant at the Dogwood Terrace apartment complex in downtown Augusta, sued the city’s housing authority in the summer of 2022 after she was shot in the leg on her front porch during an armed robbery the previous November, according to court records.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said Wednesday he is investigating corporate landlords and out-of-state companies buying up single-family homes in bulk, with inquiries to four major players to gauge their footprint and impact on the affordability and availability of housing in the state.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
The city of Atlanta resumed homeless encampment sweeps Monday after a 45-day moratorium caused by the death of a homeless man crushed by heavy construction equipment during a January city sweep. The closure of the large homeless encampment beneath the I-75/I-85 overpass on Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta began at 7:30 a.m. Monday, according to the mayor’s office.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
An Ohio judge has ruled against Millennia Housing Management after the national affordable housing company — which owns the condemned Forest Cove apartments in Atlanta — argued that federal enforcement proceedings against it are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster sided with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday, finding the court does not have jurisdiction to decide the company’s constitutional claims.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
Atlanta Beltline Inc. officials said Monday they are seeking proposals to help build affordable single-family housing on the largest property it owns in the city. The Beltline acquired the 31-acre tract of land at 425 Chappell Road in Bankhead and Historic Westin Heights in 2021, for $25.6 million from home builder Brock Built Homes. In the years since, officials have pushed a mixed-use vision for the site, located half a mile south of the Bankhead MARTA station.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
Sellers in metro Atlanta offered concessions to buyers in 62% of home sales in the first quarter of 2025 — an increase of about 5 percentage points over the same period last year, indicating another tilt in the real estate market toward buyers, according to real estate brokerage firm Redfin. The new report found that metro Atlanta has one of the largest concession rates in the country, behind only Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol, more than 100 housing-related bills were on the agenda, mirroring the large scale of the Peach State’s housing crisis. Fewer than 10 housing bills survived Crossover Day on March 6 — a deadline marking whether bills move from the House to the Senate in the Georgia General Assembly or, in a two-year session, are left in limbo until 2026.
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2 months ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
Eight Georgia affordable apartment complexes have sued national property manager RPM Living in separate lawsuits, alleging the company mismanaged their investor-owned Section 8 properties and jeopardized HUD contracts, leading to $34 million in losses.
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2 months ago | 
ajc.com | Matt Reynolds
At adramatic 2023news conference in Atlanta City Hall, former Forest Cove resident Felicia Morris, known as “Ms. Peaches,” stood alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, sharing her experiences at the dilapidated apartment complex in southeast Atlanta where she lived for decades. Through tears she described years of living with rats, mildew, tainted tap water and crumbling walls. Over time, she said, residents’ cries for help went unanswered.
