Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said the city has a plan to relocate hundreds of homeless men, women and children if a large shelter located on Peachtree and Pine Streets has its water shut off. City officials say that could happen within the next week or two unless operators of the Peachtree-Pine shelter pay the city $600,000. Reed said if the water is turned off, the city will work with Fulton County to evacuate the building. He said the relocation will be done in a “compassionate manner.”
City officials say the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, which operates the shelter, has not paid its water bill since 2010. The Task Force recently offered to give the city $100,000.
But after fighting with the Task Force for years, including in court, Mayor Reed says the shelter’s operators will have to pay their water bill and a federal court judgment with interest in full.
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