Sean Keenan

Atlanta

Reporter at Freelance

Housing Reporter at Atlanta Civic Circle

Journalist | @NYTimes, @AtlCivicCircle, @AtlantaMagazine, @TheDailyBeast, @Curbed, others

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Articles

What will it take to make Woodland Heights livable?

1 week ago | atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan

Back in 2020, Jamious Moss’s front stoop at the Westside’s Woodland Heights apartment complex looked Iike it had been fortified for a hurricane, encased with sandbags to prevent swells of water from penetrating the cracks around her basement-level front door. The muddy water gushed in anyway, drenching her two children’s clothes and toys, and seeped into her faux-wood floors and drywall. It created the perfect environment for a mold bloom.
Thousands mobilize for 'No Kings' demonstrations across all 50 states

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Mike Baker |Sean Keenan

Protesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the country Saturday, mounting a mass mobilization against a president that many demonstrators decried as authoritarian. The protests unfolded in waves as the day progressed, both in small towns and major cities including New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and Los Angeles, all intended as a counterpoint to the military parade President Donald Trump hosted in Washington.
Cities brace nationwide as day of protests gets underway

1 week ago | mahoningmatters.com | Mike Baker |Sean Keenan |Rick Rojas

Protesters began filling plazas and streets in cities across the country Saturday morning, mobilizing for mass demonstrations to counter the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, cuts to federal services and a large military parade in Washington that coincides with the president’s 79th birthday.
Protesters Fill Streets Across the U.S. to Oppose Trump Policies

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Mike Baker |Taylor Robinson |Sean Keenan

EDITORS NOTE: EDS: SUBS throughout to update; NEW headline; EXPANDS byline. Will be led.); (ART ADV: With photos.); (With: TRUMP-MILITARY-ASSESSProtesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the country Saturday, mounting a mass mobilization that called for protecting American democracy from a president whom many demonstrators decried as authoritarian.
Protesters Fill Streets Across the U.S. to Oppose Trump Policies

1 week ago | thestate.com | Mike Baker |Orlando D. Mayorquin |Taylor Robinson |Sean Keenan

In York Pennsylvania, a large crowd gathers in Continental Square on Saturday, June 14, 2025, for a No Kings protest against the Trump administration. Scott Fisher USA TODAY NETWORK EDITORS NOTE: EDS: SUBS throughout to update; NEW headline; EXPANDS byline.
After Anti-Trump Protests Sweep the Nation, Curfew Begins in Downtown Los Angeles

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Mike Baker |Orlando D. Mayorquin |Taylor Robinson |Sean Keenan

PinnedMike BakerOrlando MayorquínTaylor RobinsonSean KeenanJenna Russell and Protesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the country on Saturday, mounting a mass mobilization that called for protecting American democracy from a president whom many opponents accused of overreaching the powers of his office.
What’s the status of the Community Foundation’s $200M affordable housing pledge?

2 weeks ago | atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan

It’s been two years since Frank Fernandez, the CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, announced that the nonprofit had secured an “unprecedented” $100 million in donations from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation to build and preserve housing for lower income people — and that the group planned to raise another $100 million.
Atlanta, state officials brace for federal Emergency Housing Voucher wipeout

3 weeks ago | atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan |Katie Guenthner

As federal Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) funding dries up over the next 18 months, more than 1,000 low-income Georgians could be stripped of the critical housing subsidies that separate some 60,000 Americans from homelessness.
Three ways Atlanta's housing crisis is hitting suburbs

1 month ago | atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan

The city of Roswell relocated dozens of extended-stay motel residents after deeming the property a public health hazard. College Park officials condemned dilapidated apartments and told renters they must move out by June. A developer in Marietta wants to replace an affordable housing complex with flashy new residences.
INVESTIGATION: Dickens admin uses Housing Trust Fund to pay bonds, employee salaries

1 month ago | atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan

Editor’s note: Atlanta Civic Circle pursued this story after multiple Atlanta City Council members raised concerns that the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund wasn’t being used as intended. Mayor Andre Dickens’ office supplied a 4,159-row spreadsheet of all the fund’s transactions since its inception in late 2021, which we have analyzed for our readers.