Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday morning incident the most recent violent crime reported outside the homeless shelter located just south of Midtown.
A man who told police that he was a Poncey-Highland resident told investigators that was stabbed four times by another man during an early Friday morning incident outside the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter just south of Midtown. According to the Atlanta police report, an altercation ensued outside the shelter near the intersection of Peachtree and Pine streets around 3:30 a.m. The suspect told the victim he owed him $60 and not long after began hitting the victim. When the 33-year-old victim began to fight back, the suspect allegedly produced a knife and stabbed the victim four times, including once to the left side of his neck and arm. The suspect, described by the victim as a light-skinned black, standing 5-foot-11 to 6-feet tall with …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The state of Georgia to get more than $4 million in rental assistance to prevent homelessness or unnecessary institutionalization among the state's low-income individuals with disabilities.
Last week, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the State of Georgia’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to announce the Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Demonstration Program (PRA Demo) major grant award. HUD and HHS awarded the Georgia Housing and Finance Authority (GHFA) $4.1 million for Georgians with disabilities who are likely to become homeless or unnecessary institutionalized. "My administration is committed to reducing street homelessness in the City of Atlanta, and this grant will help our efforts tremendously," said Reed in a release. "We've already made great strides, and this grant …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Victim allegedly punched and robbed of money by fare passenger, then has front teeth knocked out during attack by several males after he exited his vehicle to retrieve his money from the suspect.
A taxi cab driver was assaulted by several men and robbed this week after dropping off a passenger near the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter just south of Midtown. According to the narrative reported by the Atlanta police officer on the scene, the driver suffered lost front teeth and other facial injuries during the incident in which he was robbed by a single passenger, and later “attacked by several males that were at the location” after exiting his taxi. According to the officer’s narrative, the incident occurred at approximately 6:15 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17 in front of the shelter. After picking up his male passenger at 232 Forsyth Street, the driver was asked to drive to a motel located at 140 Pine Street. During the ride, the …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Eleventh Circuit U.S. District Court upholds a 2011 lower court ruling in favor of the City. It's the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the Task Force in its efforts to continue operating the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter.
During the same week that the City of Atlanta is helping organize a large-scale volunteer effort to survey people sleeping in unsheltered locations and emergency shelters, the City scored a major legal win over the Metropolitan Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless on Tuesday that could lead to the 2013 closing of the Task Force-operated Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter just south of Midtown. Maria Saporta of Saporta Report writes that the Eleventh Circuit U.S. District Court has upheld a 2011 lower court ruling in favor of the City after the Task Force filed a 2008 lawsuit in response to the City seeking to collect on delinquent water and sewer bills. It’s the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the Task Force and is reportedly the end …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The bank that owns the parking lot where hundreds of homeless men hang out during the day has installed a fence and locked it
The men from the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter have moved on. Well, not really. Efforts to remove the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, which operates the controversial shelter, and relocate the men, remains tied up in courts. But as Inspector Selena Swoope of the Atlanta Police Department’s Community Services Division - Community Oriented Policing Section - confirmed to Neighborhood Planning Unit E board members Tuesday night, the men are no longer spending much of the day loitering across the street in the vacant parking lot located at 464 Courtland Street. That’s because the property owner, SunTrust Bank, has recently installed a metal fence around the lot and locked it shut. The lot is still cluttered with trash and debris, but …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
No, despite the desire of many, the shelter is not vacant yet. But if it does become so, what would you like to see replace it?
Welcome to another edition of "Visions for Vacancies," where we visit a local vacant commercial building and ask you what you'd like to see go in that space. Today, we’re at very familiar site to Midtown residents and that’s the homeless shelter building at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets. Of course to the dismay of many frustrated Midtown residents, this building isn’t vacant and has been housing hundreds of homeless men for last 15 or so years. That’s when Coca-Cola heiress Ednabelle Wardlaw purchased the 100,000-square-foot former auto parts warehouse and donated it to the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. Over the last decade and a half, the shelter has generated a number of problems for Midtown and surrounding …
DG
3:40 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
"Man stabbed multiple times outside Peachtree-Pine shelter".....that headline explains why I would never volunteer at this shelter. That's not judging from afar....it isbeing concerned for my safety. At times there are literally 100 people hanging out on this street and harrassing everyone that passes by. When they get it under control, I will be more than happy to help. more ›