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 …
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 …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Control of the Midtown shelter was to be handed to the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta today before the Georgia Court of Appeals blocked the eviction.
Less than two weeks after a Fulton County superior court judge told the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless that it must relinquish control of a midtown shelter, that decision was blocked by the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday. The decision overrides the previous ruling by Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall, who had ordered the task force’s founders to vacate the controversial homeless shelter located at Peachtree and Pine streets by Wednesday. Control of the shelter was to be handed to the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, which is to assist the men who stay there find homes before the transition of the property to the building owners by the end of August. The task force had previously appealed the eviction. Atlanta …
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The United Way will handle operation of the controversial Midtown shelter until it closes in August.
The homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets will soon shut its doors. That’s what Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall said on Friday as he ordered the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless to relinquish control of the controversial Midtown shelter. Do you think this shelter should close? In this Atlanta-Journal Constitution report, Schwall said he had protected the 435-bed shelter long enough. The shelter has struggled for years to stay open, in part because it doesn't raise enough money to cover the cost of operations. The shelter owes the city of Atlanta several hundred thousand dollars for water and sewer service. On Friday, Schwall gave the task force’s founders until Feb. 15 to vacate the property and ordered …
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1:58 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2012
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