Tag: fulton county
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ATL With No A/C
It’s summertime in Atlanta. The temperatures haven’t gotten unbearable quite yet, but there’s no reason to expect anything but another re-run of our recent years of record-breaking highs. This heat is, of course, distributed unevenly across the city, being felt more intensely in places without tree canopy cover. And while most of us are able…
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Appraising Gentrification
If you’re a Fulton County homeowner, it’s that time of year to have just recently received your latest property tax assessment. And chances are, that assessment has gone up, meaning you’ll be paying more in property taxes. But those increases in property taxes aren’t equal across the county. Thanks to the fact that Fulton…
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Absentee Exploitation
Over the past week, the AJC has been running an excellent multi-part investigation of the housing conditions at some of Atlanta’s most notoriously dilapidated complexes, broadening out from the case of the now-condemned Forest Cove Apartments. While the whole situation is infuriating, I was particularly taken with the second part of the series investigating the…