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Unionized Atlanta stores await date for Starbucks contract negotiation
Howell Mill and Ansley Mall Starbucks locations have received no official bargaining date from Starbucks Corporate. No stores in the South region have been invited to…
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Walker, Warnock in Senate runoff
Less than one Sanford Stadium-worth of votes separate Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock. A runoff is happening. Read a Q and A with both candidates here.
Republicans win Georgia state offices
Republicans will continue to run the Gold Dome in Atlanta. But the race for U.S. Senate from Georgia is headed to a runoff.
More Housing Affordability News
City lawmakers push for more affordable housing at Bowen Homes revamp
Because AH’s sole mission is to house lower-income Atlantans, they say, the agency should beef up the affordable housing component of its ambitious blueprint for the…
Atlanta City Council proposes making publicly subsidized landlords accept housing vouchers
After Atlanta Civic Circle reported in July that Atlanta’s most vulnerable renters could benefit from a law like Charlotte’s, the Nov. 7 city council meeting brought that idea…
Invest Atlanta seeks nonprofit to run $40.7M property tax aid program for fast-gentrifying areas
Invest Atlanta is launching the program in 2023 to pay increases over base property taxes for lower-income Atlantans.
Expecting to exhaust funds, state abruptly shutters emergency rent assistance program
When the application portal for Georgia’s emergency rental assistance (ERA) program abruptly shuttered late last month, it rang alarm bells for local housing advocates, who worried the state…
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