An attorney for the Peachtree-Pine Homeless Shelter says it’s fully in compliance with requirements from Fulton County to prevent tuberculosis outbreaks.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said during a luncheon Tuesday he wanted to shutter the shelter over health concerns. He cited conversations and data he received from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the shelter was “one of the leading sites for tuberculosis in the nation.”
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