Meeting Minutes

Attendees: David Lewicki, Wendy Cromwell, Paula Collins, Annie Godfrey, Carrie Sjogren Discuss meeting days/time, Mailchimp, co-sponsoring seminar (request from Sara), Missing Middle effort Meetings – who needs to be there, when to meet working template was 1/month Tuesday evening meetings, meant to be highly participatory and to draw large groups, trying to do education about […]

Attending: Catherine Carter, Gail Bell, Lou Reeves, Beate Sasse, Tim Sass, Carol Burgess, Wendy Cromwell, Carrie Sjogren, Alice Weinberg, Paula Collins, Kris Adams, Diana Caplan,  Moderator: David Lewicki Recent Decatur successes:  Mandatory inclusion zoning in Decatur and Atlanta: While not at the percentages we would like, it is a start.  Missing middle conversation is now

After our December break, it was great to see everyone together again over Zoom! Our January meeting began with updates from several Coalition members. All updates can be viewed in the full meeting minutes here. One update to note is that the Coalition has signed on to the Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home

Thanks to all who attended our November meeting! We started off with an update from Sara Patenaude covering the Housing Justice League’s work to prevent evictions from extended stay hotels. The league is trying to organize residents to work for tenant rights and property management, as no rights currently exist in Georgia law. Click here to

It was great to see everyone who attended our last meeting over Zoom. You can view the full meeting minutes here. Special thanks to Craig Taylor and Will Styles for speaking with us. Craig  is a developer for affordable housing. He explained that the biggest challenges to affordable housing are property values and public opposition. He

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our last meeting. It was a rainy night, but a treat to have Bambie Hayes-Brown with GA ACT join us for her legislative rundown. You can find links to the hand-outs here: GA ACT 2020 Policy and Advocacy Agenda Summary Fact Sheet on the OCC and FDIC CRA

Introductions Updates on Ongoing Projects: HUD and Better Living Together Decatur Task Force – held organizing meetings, charged with report by end of calendar year. Created subcommittees. DeKalb – Thanks to everyone’s persistence with letter writing, email sending and phone calls, we persuaded the commissioners to increase the stated goal in the HUD Consolidated Plan from 400