Urban Studies Institute affiliate, Deirdre Oakley, responds to the City of Atlanta’s new cargo container housing development, positing that the city’s new “rapid housing” program is part of an important push to place people experiencing homelessness in safe, stable, and affordable apartments — but it’s also a stopgap measure to facilitate the city’s effort to get rid of tent cities. Read more of her remarks and from one of the development’s new residents here.
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