Investigative reporting and community storytelling about the cost of living in Atlanta
In partnership with
The Cost of Living Project is an innovative look at the price we pay to live in metro Atlanta.
This conversation is about more than escalating home and rental costs; over the course of this project, we’ll explore the cost of living through food, wages, transportation, childcare, education, and healthcare—in addition to housing.
Articles & Stories
- Welcome home: a 160-square-foot fresh start
- Welcome home: owning the structure, leasing the land
- This 25-year-old took out a loan to live on his own for the first time
- A leap of faith
- Seeking Shelter
- Their dream job doesn’t pay. Their real job barely does.
- “This isn’t going to work anymore”
- “Building community with our local groceries—that’s the antidote”
- “Apartments and rentals are getting big for their britches”
- This land is their land
- “Eat the bitterness and be creative”
- “Deny, defend, depose”
- Meet this Senior Financial Analyst from East Atlanta
- Explore how housing costs in the Tri-Cities have changed
- “It’s not affordable for me”
- What Atlanta’s zoning rewrite will (and won’t) do
- “I have to penny-pinch on what I eat”: Three college students struggle with affordability
- We asked Atlantans to tell us more about their communities
- For decades, Gwinnett County has struggled to expand public transportation. Could microtransit help?
- Meet this library associate from Pittsburgh
- We won!
- ADU 101
- Caregiving is “the work that makes all other work possible.” It’s also underpaid, undervalued, and in need of investment.
- From free groceries to mental healthcare, mutual aid means building community—and political power
- Waste not, want not
- “We’re the ones struggling”
- “I lost hope when it came to being a homeowner in Atlanta.”
- My Point of View: Campbellton Road
- What does it cost Atlanta to have so many parking spaces? A lot
- Meet this programs and marketing manager from West End
- The least of these
- Housing Crisis: The Game
- From the Ground Up
- Behind Closed Doors
- How one Atlanta pop-up baker gets things done
- Join us for our first ATL Living Lab
- Why isn’t affordable housing . . . affordable?
- “We don’t have enough to keep it going”
- How much did you pay for your first apartment?
- The changing face of harm reduction
- 4 takeaways from a recent Senate hearing on negligent landlords in Georgia
- What makes a state a good place to do business? (And what does that mean for workers?)
- The great divide
- On Buford Highway, a little grocery store with a big mission
- Christmas is over. But Santa still has to make a living.
- Listening Insights: Year in Review
- For seasonal employees, short-term work has its ups and downs
- When givers can’t give
- “Your life doesn’t start in the U.S. until you have reliable transportation”
- 15 Ways to Give This Holiday Season
- This 27-year-old will graduate with $90,000 in student loans
- (Most) everything you need to know about Housing Choice Vouchers, aka Section 8
- A senior sees Bankhead progressing—and leaving folks behind
- Rising property taxes have complicated this artist’s retirement plan
- A full-time caregiver navigates rising rent, aging family, and parenthood
- Meet the Cost of Living fellows
- Join the Cost of Living Project!
- In between jobs in Grant Park
- Hope for a Post-it note
- How do Georgia’s eviction laws impact me?
- Understanding TADs and TIFs, the financing tricks that transform cities
- Meet this MRI technologist from East Cobb
- What rights do I have as a tenant?