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BisNow reports on the National Low Income Housing Coalition's most recent analysis of the gap in housing supply for extremely low-income households, and the anticipated exacerbation of those challenges with the slashing of HUD funding and staff cuts: https://buff.ly/tCpjMbw

Invest Atlanta has a series of community events coming up to provide information on its anti-displacement tax relief fund:

Atlanta Beltline Partnership is offering an event on Saturday to assist homeowners with filing for their homestead exemptions:

Come celebrate HouseATL's 2025 Affordable Housing Awardees at our luncheon on April 30th! Thank you to our Supporting Sponsors, Live/Work/Walk Foundation, Goode Van Slyke Architecture, SK Collaborative, CORT Furniture Rental & Sales, LDG Development, Southern First Bank, Corporation for Supportive Housing and BCM Georgia! We are grateful to you, along with our other sponsors.

📣 Calling all Atlanta climate activists and aspiring activists!! 📣 Rewiring America and Generation180 are hosting a *PAID* weekend training in Atlanta from April 26th-27th for 15 Community Builders & 15 Content Creators who care about their community and want to use their skills to help the climate! The program, called "Amplifier," trains participants about the benefits of clean energy and electrification. Community builders will develop action plans to engage with their home communities, while content creators will plan at least one video project about clean energy. For three months after the training ends, participants will also take part in monthly Zoom calls to reconnect and share successes and challenges. The deadline to apply is MARCH 21st. Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eYWbq383

At Columbia Residential, we aim to build and preserve affordable homes that create lasting impact. Last month, our senior leadership visited the newly renovated Columbia High Point Senior Residences—a community that has provided a home for seniors for 24 years. Thanks to our partnerships with Atlanta Housing, Enterprise Community Partners, and Trinity Construction Services, we’re preserving affordability and quality housing for years to come. Read more about the renovation and its impact in the full write-up at https://lnkd.in/eqfxRGnE

Very disturbing news.

Join us for our 2025 Affordable Housing Awards on April 30th! Thank you to our Champion Sponsors, Atlanta Beltline, PNC, Truist Community Capital, Reinvestment Fund, Purpose Built Communities, Gorman & Company, and Wells Fargo. More communications to come about our other sponsors!

HouseATL has been advocating for a $20 million increase for the Georgia Housing Voucher Program in the FY 2026 budget. This program, by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Adult Mental Health, provides supportive housing vouchers and wraparound for chronically homeless people with severe mental illness. Funding is currently below pre-pandemic levels, while costs and need have dramatically increased, due primarily to rising rents and increased unsheltered homelessness. Please contact members of the Senate Appropriations Health and Human Development Subcommittee (https://buff.ly/ut0oJZl ) and the Chair of Senate Appropriations Blake Tillery (https://buff.ly/KCNEpfP ). The House increased the budget by only $1.7 M, while we are asking for an increase of $20 M. We are also seeking $25 Million in the FY 26 Budget for flexible local grants for Emergency Rental Assistance within the Department of Community Affairs State Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless. Without this appropriation, the DCA pilot program for emergency rental assistance will end in September when the balance of the federal Covid dollars for emergency rental assistance is exhausted. Please contact members of the Senate Appropriations Economic Development Subcommittee (https://buff.ly/ut0oJZl ) and the Chair of Senate Appropriations Blake Tillery (https://buff.ly/KCNEpfP )

Congratulations to HouseATL member, Amanda Rhein and Kyle Reis, AIA, AICP, LEED AP!