What does affordable housing mean?

Affordable housing is generally defined as housing on which the occupant is paying no more than 30 percent of gross income for housing costs, including utilities.

How available is housing in Cobb County?

Tenets to Success

• Program Sustainability

  • The program should be able to survive without government input, but rather be sustainable due to good market practices and proper legislative guardrails

• Upward Mobility

  • Concentrated poverty creates a lack of upward mobility for all parties involved. This is the measure of an individual or family's ability to continue increasing their net worth through access to opportunities and stay viable within their place of residence.

• Community Re-investment

  • By focusing on the unique needs of communities, reinvesting in the community, and keeping wealth circulating within a community, the sometime brutish tide of gentrification can be reduced to a net-zero amount. This can be achieved by facilitating the businesses within a local area and encouraging entrepreneurship and local investment by residents. The community is able to capitalize on its own growth and continue it through generations.

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