Renovated ‘Atlanta Motel’ reopens as housing for chronically homeless

The new Ralph David House in East Atlanta with a large ad hanging off the side of the building that says Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home.
The new Ralph David House in East Atlanta offers 56 studio apartments for city residents exiting homelessness. (Stephannie Stokes/WABE)

Atlanta is opening another housing complex for those who are homeless — the third such opening this year.

The latest reimagines the 1960s-era Atlanta Motel, which had sat deteriorating along Moreland Avenue right off I-20 in east Atlanta.

The 56 units, renovated by the developer Stryant, will be open to people considered chronically homeless, meaning they’ve been without a place for more than a year.