7 Housing
Introduction
The Housing element provides the opportunity to inventory the existing housing stock and to assess its adequacy and suitability for serving current and future population and economic development needs. In addition, it attempts to determine future housing needs, articulate housing goals and formulate strategies toward the adequate provision of housing for all sectors of the population.
The City of Atlanta’s housing policies are characterized by a framework that seeks to sustain the current residents, regardless of income, while encouraging new, mixed-income housing opportunities within areas undergoing new development and redevelopment. Current strategies include the coordination of multiple housing incentives targeted to address existing physical decline in neighborhoods. Current rehabilitation efforts focus on communities that have experienced significant physical decline in their housing stock. Implementation of many housing initiatives, such as the Empowerment Zone sponsored first time homebuyer's program; the Land Bank Authority’s program for housing developers; the enterprise zone program and the wide array of the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) redevelopment projects are well under way. These, as well as other housing initiatives throughout the City, are itemized in the 2001 Annual Action Plan of the 2000-2004 Consolidated Plan, adopted November 1999. A sub-component of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), the Consolidated Plan sets the framework to achieve the City’s housing priorities.
This element of the CDP contains an inventory and assessment of current conditions, including housing data such as total units, structure types, occupancy status, housing conditions, housing values, and market activities. It also contains anticipated future conditions, including new housing projections and current policies, programs and projects.