The House the Unhoused DeKalb Alliance held a homelessness community forum on Monday, Jan. 9, at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church to talk about some of the root causes of homelessness and ways to address the issue.
Dan Immergluck, a professor of urban studies at Georgia State University, dove into some key decisions made that impact housing. He noted that Atlanta has shifted away from a model of public housing and has primarily moved to housing vouchers.
“That has come home to roost, because we now have a system, in Atlanta especially, built on vouchers and nobody can find a unit that will accept their voucher because the market rents are so much more lucrative and are going up much faster than what HUD will pay for a vouchered rent. Instead of having a stock of dependable public housing, or social housing, we have a voucher based system,” Immergluck said.
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