Organizations working to respond to the affordable housing crisis

On Thursday, May 12, the Community Foundation partnered with WABE for Housing Our Region, a discussion led by WABE’s Rose Scott on how these Atlanta and Lawrenceville are tackling affordable housing from a municipal and nonprofit perspective, and the critical role philanthropy plays. To read a recap of the event, click here. Watch the full discussion here.

If you would like to support this issue, the organizations below are doing great work advocating, developing and responding nimbly to our crisis.

Affordable Housing Advocacy
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation creates safe and stable homes and families by inspiring the fight for equal justice. 
Georgia Advancing Communities Together (ACT) builds, supports and informs a statewide network of thriving organizations, professionals and individuals advancing equitable housing and community development. 
Housing Justice League fights to preserve affordable housing, prevent gentrification, and build neighborhood power for an Atlanta-wide housing justice movement.
Urban League of Greater Atlanta provides several types of housing counseling services to the general public and is an approved counseling agency of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Affordable Housing Development
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership develops, finances, and advocates for affordable housing that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
Enterprise invests in and advocates for the preservation and production of good homes people can afford.
Focused Community Strategies partners with under-resourced neighborhoods to provide innovative and holistic development that produces flourishing communities.
Gwinnett Housing Corporation focuses on creating, rehabilitating and operating quality affordable residential housing.
Quest Communities works to bring economic and social justice to the people and communities on Atlanta’s Westside.

Emergency Housing
Hearts to Nourish Hope offers innovative programming, community collaboration and essential services, including emergency rental assistance, to residents of Clayton County.
Midtown Assistance Center assists the working poor of Downtown, Midtown, Westside, and Southeast Atlanta to prevent homelessness, disconnection of basic utility services, and hunger during periods of temporary financial crisis.
MUST Ministries provides emergency housing and other services to residents of South Cobb county.

If you would like to give more broadly to support affordable housing, consider a contribution to the Community Foundation’s TogetherATL Housing and Neighborhoods Fund, which supports organizations that are helping people stay in their neighborhoods or find new, affordable homes. If you are a donor of the Community Foundation, please contact your philanthropic officer to learn more.