blight Archives - Atlanta Civic Circle

A photo of a low-rise apartment complex with holes in the side from fire and neglect.

Housing Affordability

Atlanta moves to seize blighted apartments from neglectful landlords

by Sean Keenan August 20, 2025August 20, 2025

New legislation enables the city to seize and rehab unsafe apartments.

A photo of a boarded-up house with weeds sprouting around it.

Housing Affordability

Is Atlanta’s ‘war on blight’ winnable?

by Sean Keenan September 18, 2024September 18, 2024

Housing Affordability

Forest Cove apartments appear bound for demolition, as tenant relocation deadline looms

by Sean Keenan February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

Housing Affordability

Restoration of “uninhabitable” Forest Cove apartments could start in January

by Sean Keenan December 23, 2021December 27, 2021

Housing Affordability

“Pathetic and despicable”: Conditions at southside apartment complex underscore need for renovation

by Sean Keenan September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

Housing Affordability

Before renovations, residents of “uninhabitable” Southside complex to be relocated

by Sean Keenan June 15, 2021June 16, 2021

Housing Affordability

At long last, firm buys “uninhabitable” Southside apartments, gears up for rehab

by Sean Keenan April 30, 2021July 19, 2021

Housing Affordability

Long-delayed sale, rehab of decaying Forest Cove apartments on horizon

by Sean Keenan April 22, 2021July 19, 2021

Housing Affordability

Why it’s so complicated for Atlanta to punish scofflaw property owners

by Sean Keenan April 15, 2021July 19, 2021

Housing Affordability

Atlanta aches for crackdown on absentee property owners, blight contributors

by Sean Keenan April 6, 2021July 19, 2021