The ACLU of Georgia released a report documenting chronic overcrowding at the Fulton County Jail, which has led to 32 deaths since 2021, and outlining policy changes to reduce the jail population and improve conditions.
The Policing Alternatives and Diversion (PAD) Initiative in Atlanta is diverting individuals in crisis away from incarceration and towards community support systems, with the aim of reducing the number of people in the justice system and improving overall public health and safety.
Wall Street’s financialization of housing has driven up rents and made homeownership increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans, with corporations buying up homes in bulk and driving up costs, leading to a call for social housing as an alternative.
The traditional narrative of red-state cities being the antidote to the coastal housing affordability crisis is breaking down, as cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Austin, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Boise, and Salt Lake City are experiencing rapid price growth, worsening traffic, and local pushback against new development, due to the physical and economic limits of sprawl.
The housing crisis in America is now a nationwide issue, with cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, and Miami seeing housing costs rise even faster than in California, and the problem is not caused by ideology, but by the politics of land use and the privilege of homeownership.
By The Vanguard Staff BROOKLYN, NY – The U.S. “may be experiencing one of the largest annual…