Updates from the chapter
Let’s discuss Zoning & Affordability! 🏡🏙️🚉📣 Right now, the city is discussing its first zoning code rewrite since the 1980’s. Why does this matter? Zoning is a tool that allows localities to determine what can be built and where. Zoning decisions directly impact affordability across neighborhoods, walkability, transit access, and more. Come out Weds. Oct. 28 at 7 pm to the Little 5 Points Comm…
Join us for a Fall Action Hour at the KUA Summerhill studio on Wednesday, October 21 from 5-7 PM! 🍂🎉🍻📣 Presented by @abundanthousingatlanta and hosted by @kronbergua, this is a happy hour to celebrate the progress that's been made on dramatically shifting the direction of Zoning 2.0 and rally around what's next. Following a review of the exceptionally ineffectual draft from the City of Atlanta…
Zoning 2.0 Update: A Breakthrough for Atlanta’s Housing Future
After years(!) of public input and recent pro-housing advocacy, we're seeing signs of meaningful progress toward a zoning code that allows the housing options our city needs. The City of Atlanta commissioned an independent review of Zoning 2.0 that reinforces many of the changes we've been advocating for to improve Atlanta's outdated zoning code. Here's what we're keeping an eye on now.
More homes ✅ preserving affordability on the Beltline ✅ keeping legacy residents in their community ✅ We support the proposed redevelopment of Trestletree Village in Grant Park and Ormewood Park because it is a rare opportunity for "development without displacement." It preserves 188 existing affordable homes, improves housing quality for current residents, and adds new homes along the Southeast B…
We’re looking to better understand how people engage in local civic life, what barriers they encounter, and what support would help them participate more effectively. Whether you are active in your Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) or other community groups, or aren’t sure where to begin, we want to hear from you! Take a few minutes to tell us about your neighborhood involvement (survey link in bio…
How involved are you in your neighborhood? We want to know! We are beginning an initiative to help more pro-housing neighbors navigate our local civic engagement landscape with knowledge, confidence, and community. We'd like to know about your civic engagement involvement, where there are barriers, and how we can support. Take 10 minutes to share your thoughts: https://forms.gle/1iZhC1pgKbpbiqQY7
A recent AJC op-ed from Abundant Housing Atlanta board member Dr. Florence LeCraw connects housing affordability to Atlantans' everyday experiences: long commutes, rising costs, and worsening traffic. When nurses, teachers, service workers, and other essential workers can’t afford to live near their jobs, everyone feels the impact. The article highlights ways Atlantans can speak up for evidence-ba…
Join Abundant Housing Atlanta for our Spring Kickoff and Happy Hour on Wednesday, April 29 at 6:00 PM at Manuel’s Tavern! 🌹🌱🌳 During this time, we will welcome (back!) Asile, our former Atlanta Regional Organizer, to the AHA staff, unveil our upcoming strategic priorities, and plug you in on ways you can get involved! You WON’T want to miss it! Register at the link in bio! #ATLhousing #AtlantaH…
On April 13, hear from Emily Barrett of @gtplanning about how housing affordability impacts Atlanta’s campus communities - our students, staff, and neighborhoods. We’ll be at Georgia Tech, and all are welcome to join for a presentation followed by Q&A. Find details and registration at the link in bio!
Action hour recap + an easy way to take meaningful housing action. If you ask us, the biggest under-the-radar opportunity to improve housing in Atlanta is… Zoning 2.0. It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to get housing right. When he took office, Mayor Dickens set an ambitious goal to create and preserve 20,000 affordable homes, and we’re here for it. But the current draft of Zoning 2.0 won’t deliv…
Opening More Doors: Getting Zoning 2.0 Right for Atlanta
We're in affordability crisis, and our city's first comprehensive zoning reform in 40 years needs to make it easier to build housing.
Repealing Parking Mandates
More Homes & Businesses at Lower Cost, and Still, Plenty of Parking.
Events
Who we're endorsing
No endorsements this cycleWhen we endorse, members vote on every endorsement. Join the chapter to help decide who we back.
Resources
Guides and reference from Abundant Housing Atlanta.
- Our values
- Our vision
- Past actionsWe bring Atlantans together to advocate for more homes and for better policies that will make our city more affordable and welcoming to all. Through petitions, public outreach, and direct engagement with city officials, we’ve supported new housing across Atlanta. Here are some of our past campaigns.
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About Abundant Housing Atlanta
We are a group of Atlanta neighbors who advocate for more housing
We are residents of the Metro Atlanta area. We’re a mix of long-time residents and newcomers, renters and homeowners, business owners and employees, families and individuals, citizens and immigrants, commuters, bus riders, cyclists and pedestrians. Read more about our values.
We want a more affordable and sustainable Atlanta
We see friends, family, and coworkers being priced out of our area. We see sprawl consume acres of wilderness and increase the number of cars on the road. But we know there is an alternative. We want Atlanta to be an affordable and inclusive community, one in which new residents can thrive and legacy residents have the ability to age in place with dignity. Read more about our vision for Atlanta.
Want to learn more?
New to housing, affordability, and urbanism? We have resources for you on how housing supply impacts affordability, why density matters, how zoning impacts affordability, and how systemic racism has and continues to contribute to our housing crisis. And primers on housing solutions that actually work.
Looking for something a bit more Atlanta-specific? Take a look at Atlanta City Design Housing's deep dive into where Atlanta has been, where we're going, and what policy changes we need to create a more inclusive City.
How we work
Reform the rules
Back zoning reform and streamlined permitting so more homes are legal to build, especially near transit and jobs.
Educate & engage
Turn out residents to the meetings that matter and make it easy to take a pro-housing position on local projects.
Build partnerships
Work with neighbors, labor, faith groups, and builders toward a shared abundant-housing agenda.
Abundant Housing Atlanta is a chapter of YIMBY Action.
One of the local groups organizing for more homes across the country, backed by the national team.