Closer Look: Cobb County’s Blight Tax; LGBTQ In The South; And More

• 0:00: Rose Scott gives a news brief on reaction from Georgia lawmakers to President Donald Trump’s address regarding the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
• 3:15: In our year-long look at affordable housing series: For every 100 extremely low-income households, there are only 29 affordable rental units, according to a report by Urban Institute published earlier this year. Erika Poethig, director of the Urban Policy Advisory Group at the Urban Institute, talks about the report, which looks at the affordable housing crisis across the nation.
• 21:40: The LGBTQ Institute Southern Survey 2017 was created through a partnership between the Center for Civil and Human Rights and Georgia State University. Dr. Eric Wright, principal investigator of the survey and chair of the department of sociology at Georgia State University, talks about the project. Also joining the discussion, Ryan Roemerman, executive director for the LGBT Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
• 41:12: The Cobb County Commission recently approved a new blight tax aimed at rental properties and businesses. Commissioner Lisa Cupid, who co-sponsored the ordinance, talks about why she believes it’s needed.

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