![]() ![]() ![]() Number three, they don’t have the authority to enforce housing code. He has refused to take action on legislation that would solve the problem that William raised, which is that in the state of Georgia, it is illegal for local communities, for city council’s, county commissions, to use their imprimatur to change the laws for inclusionary zoning, for rent control, you can’t even have the conversation as a legal matter. He’s currently sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars designed to prevent the very evictions that are skyrocketing in the state of Georgia. The current governor has refused to take action to tackle any of those issues. So, all of those three issues then lead to the fourth issue with just homelessness, which is also on the rise in Georgia. You live in a community where you’ve anchored that community, you’ve built your life there, and then new things come in and you’re forced out. The ability to enforce housing rules is actually very lax in Georgia, and we have a gentrification issue. We have an issue with habitability within that housing, meaning that you may have housing, but it doesn’t mean that you can actually physically stay there - it maybe unsafe, it may be unsanitary. We have an affordability issue - if you have access to the housing, it doesn’t stay affordable for very long. We have an inventory issue - not enough actual affordable housing. So, let’s just start with what the problem is in Georgia. Abrams, how do you plan on addressing this issue and the problem of rising rents, in general?” Once a lease is up, the rents can be raised with no cap on the increase. ![]() Our first question is from William, a 37-year-old Atlanta voter who submitted this to Capital B, “Georgia law, prevented cities from instituting any type of rent control. Some Atlanta neighborhoods have seen rents jump 30% or more in recent years, and Black folks across metro Atlanta and the state are being evicted disproportionately. First up, housing costs have been skyrocketing across the state. So, I’ll be asking questions based on my own reporting, as well as some of that of my colleagues, Sydney Sims and Ann Hill-Bond, that they have sourced directly from voters in the last few days. I have spent the last few months talking to Black voters across the state about the issues that matter most to them in this election cycle, and we wanted to center this conversation on those Black voters’ concerns. This is the first in the Capital B election 2022 event series interviewing major Black political candidates across the country. Capital B Atlanta is part of Capital B, a nonprofit, local and national news organization reporting for Black audiences. I’m Chauncey Alcorn, political reporter for Capital B Atlanta, a newsroom dedicated to civic journalism by and four Black people in metro Atlanta. And welcome to our Q&A with Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic nominee for governor. Sign up for extra news and info from the team. ![]()
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