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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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