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Stephannie Stokes is a reporter with WABE.

Outside the Thursday meeting with Atlanta City Council members, City Hall was decorated for Pride Month, including posters of LGBTQ activists and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. In the special meeting, a program that helps people with HIV cover their rent was being discussed.

As Tenants With HIV Face Eviction Threat, The City Of Atlanta Has Few Answers

Stephannie Stokes • Jun 28, 2019

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

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

Stephannie Stokes • Jan 31, 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