Atlanta BeltLine Rethinks How It Tracks Its Progress On Affordable Housing

At the BeltLine’s second quarterly update of 2018, city leaders, including the mayor, sat down for a conversation about equity in Atlanta. From left: Odetta MacLeish-White of the TransFormation Alliance, BeltLine CEO Brian McGowan, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, City Planning Commissioner Tim Keane and Atlanta Housing Authority Interim CEO Brandon Riddick-Seals.

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The Atlanta BeltLine is rethinking how it meets its goals for affordable housing.

One figure has been a big deal when it comes to affordability around the BeltLine: 5,600. That’s the number of low-cost units the trail’s governing body said it would build at the start of the project.

But as the years went on, the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. fell far behind that goal.