Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …| mapping atlanta
Access to banking and credit are the kind of mundane concerns that exist in the background of our everyday lives, right up until the moments when we really need them, like when we need a mortgage to buy a house or a short-term loan to cover the next week’s expenses. Unfortunately, like so many other […]| mapping atlanta
It feels like every week there’s a new food hall concept being opened or announced somewhere across metro Atlanta. Sometimes, a new food hall opens, then gets closed down within a couple months, th…| mapping atlanta
In 2019, the City of Atlanta adopted its Clean Energy Atlanta plan, which called for the city to achieve 100% clean energy generation by 2035. While increasing the production of clean and renewable…| mapping atlanta
Atlanta sits at the center of the history of public housing in America. We were home to the country’s first-ever federally-funded public housing complex, Techwood Homes, in 1936. A little over half…| mapping atlanta
Last month, we shared a snapshot of the landscape of large corporate single family landlords across metro Atlanta, showing that just the top ten of these companies own over 30,000 properties here i…| mapping atlanta
For the last decade, the Atlanta metro has been ground zero for corporate investors buying up single-family homes to turn into rental properties. Studies have consistently shown that more so than a…| mapping atlanta
For the last two-plus years, the place of the police in our society has been at the forefront not only here in Atlanta, but nationwide. But given the murder of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of an AP…| mapping atlanta
Across the state today, 1,120,314 acres of agricultural land, or about 3% of the total land mass, are owned by foreign investors who own the land not as a way of sustaining life and livelihood, but…| mapping atlanta
For the last several months, the mayor, chief of police, state attorney general and local media have been at pains to paint the struggle to Stop Cop City as one comprised primarily of so-called “ou…| mapping atlanta