Updated on August 1, 2025, at 9:35 a.m.
The sound of Charles Walsh’s bass guitar, emanating from a tiny room barely wide enough for his twin-sized bed and other instruments, echoed throughout the second floor of CaringWorks Hope House near Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia Capitol one afternoon in July.
For men like Walsh, playing the bass guitar is more than a hobby. It’s a testament to a second chance, which was made possible through a program at the 70-bed facility that helps adult men from across the state become sober and secure stable housing so they don’t end up back on the streets or in jail, though looming federal funding cuts and the unrelenting pressure of Atlanta’s escalating affordable housing crisis threaten its future.
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