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Community advocates influence Gulfport, Mississippi, development plans
The city hearing in Gulfport, Mississippi, seemed to include all the elements of responsive local government. There was the full, seven-member City Council sitting at a semicircular dais in the front of the chamber. There were citizens from across Mississippi’s second-largest city filling the rows of seats. There was a city-contracted attorney and a consultant…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Advocates seek aid for unhoused people in Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’
Homecoming weekend at Alabama A&M University is always a busy one in Huntsville. But earlier this month, while undergrads and alums celebrated the big game with parties, concerts and a parade, a much smaller group of people huddled in the shadow of the Interstate 565/Highway 431 interchange, trying to figure out where they were going…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Sapelo Island residents fight to keep Georgia’s last Gullah Geechee community
When Hurricane Helene rampaged up the Atlantic coast last month, it was no surprise for the residents of Sapelo Island that their community lost power in its wake. “We had a six-day power outage,” Reginald Hall, a native of the island who left for several years before returning in 1994, texted after power was restored.…
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‘Banned From Public Spaces’: Report highlights criminalization of homelessness
In this playlist: People who have experienced homelessness in Athens, Georgia, share stories of facing harassment and inhumane treatment, and discuss how the support they’ve received has enabled them to overcome adversity. Walk through downtown Athens, Georgia, on any given day and you may hear the sound of drumsticks – sometimes heavy, sometimes sharp, sometimes…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Georgia residents displaced from affordable housing denied decent places to live
It had seemed like such a blessing. A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse opened up in Forest Cove, an affordable housing complex in Southeast Atlanta. At the 296-unit development on a main bus line, Tucker, now 33, hoped she…
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Florida activists oppose redevelopment plan that would displace residents again
Under the dome of St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field, home to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, lies a field of broken dreams. A Black neighborhood once lay where the stadium and its vast parking lots stand. Known as the Gas Plant District for the two immense fuel tanks that rose over it, this Florida community’s…
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Advocacy Groups Urge City of Atlanta, State and Federal, Agencies to Ensure Nondiscriminatory Relocation of Forest Cove Residents
Letter sent to officials highlights possible civil rights violations as families were forced to live in deplorable conditions and given little time and few resources before being forced to vacate
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Sheltering Injustice
A Call for Georgia to Stop Criminalizing People Experiencing Homelessness
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
New Orleans homeowners still in financial storm 18 years after Katrina
It was 18 years ago this week that Robert Ricks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, issued an ominous warning as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans. “Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks … perhaps longer,” the note read. “At least one half of well-constructed homes will have roof and wall failure.…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Unhealthy Homes: ‘Gutted’ New Orleans ordinance allows landlords to neglect run-down properties
It’s been almost 20 years since fair housing advocates suggested the idea of a “healthy homes” ordinance to protect New Orleans renters from substandard housing units and unfair landlords. In November, following over a decade of organizing by the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center, HousingNOLA, Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative and others, advocates and renters…
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