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Stephannie Stokes

Stephannie Stokes is a reporter with WABE.

A year ago, Atlanta adopted a new rule requiring developers building along the BeltLine include low-cost units. But so far, it hasn't done much for affordable housing in the city.

A Year In, Atlanta’s Inclusionary Zoning Does Little For Affordable Housing

Stephannie Stokes • Mar 6, 2019

Nonprofit Offers To Pay Westside Homeowners’ Property Tax Hikes. Why Won’t More Sign Up?

Stephannie Stokes • Feb 5, 2019

The Church of the Common Ground meets for a Bible study in Woodruff Park. The Super Bowl has created uncertainty for its parishioners, many of whom are homeless.

Atlanta’s Pledge To Clear Homeless Camps Fuels Anxiety Ahead Of Super Bowl

Stephannie Stokes • Jan 30, 2019

During a 2016 protest, union organizers, students and supporters for a $15-an-hour wage march in Pennsylvania. Many U.S. workers started 2019 with a raise. The minimum wage went up in 20 states -- but not in Georgia.

Georgia’s Minimum Wage Is Still $5.15. That’s Not Unusual In The South.

Stephannie Stokes • Jan 16, 2019

A Family’s Search For Affordable Housing In Atlanta

Stephannie Stokes • Dec 7, 2018

Bloomberg put Atlanta at the top of its list of income inequality in 2018.

How Atlanta Became The Capital Of Income Inequality

Stephannie Stokes • Oct 31, 2018

A recent report from the Urban Institute found many landlords reject tSection 8 vouchers before ever meeting their recipients.

Why Don’t Landlords Take Section 8? HUD Asks

Stephannie Stokes • Oct 11, 2018

The redevelopment of Buford Highway's affordable apartment complexes worries Rebekah Morris of the community advocacy group Los Vecinos.

Loss Of Affordable Complexes Worries Buford Highway Community

Stephannie Stokes • Oct 2, 2018

MARTA is set to vote on $2.7 billion worth of projects Thursday in what is being billed as the largest transit investment in Atlanta history.

MARTA Board To Vote This Week On Future Of Atlanta Transit

Sam Whitehead, Stephannie Stokes • Oct 1, 2018

MARTA’s latest list of expansion projects included nearly a half a billion dollars for light rail around parts of the BeltLine.

MARTA Shares New Vision For Transit Expansion Around Atlanta

Stephannie Stokes • Sep 27, 2018

At Wednesday night’s meeting, people wearing green shirts that said “Green Light The Gulch” took up many of the seats. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her team spent most of the session reviewing the already released details of the downtown Gulch project.

Atlanta Mayor Pitches Plan For The Gulch In Tense Public Meeting

Stephannie Stokes • Sep 27, 2018

"And of course, that is key to recovery,” said Susan Goico, who directs the Disability Integration Project at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. “You have to have a place to live in order to work toward recovery."

Report: Georgia Falls Short On Housing People With Mental Illnesses

Stephannie Stokes • Sep 25, 2018