Poll: Bottoms or Norwood? (Mitchell: to buy, affordable housing, residential)

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Originally Posted by Gulch

Most of the Atlanta power structure lives off Cascade Road and in the Niskey Lake area, which is upper-middle class.

Yeah, I don't know where he gets that. People that actually know the southwest side of the city respect its neighborhoods.

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Originally Posted by jeoff

I think I understand what you want, but getting there will be difficult, and there is no guarantee that anything that you might try, won’t help the situation or even make things worse. Most things that improve an area for its residents will also make it more attractive for folks outside the area, so prices will go up. There are things you can try to keep current residents in place. The most obvious are programs that keep property tax rates in place for long time residents—but, really that can only slow gentrification, and make it less painful—home owners are not forced out due to rising taxes—and that really doesn’t help renters. You could try rent controls, but, at best that slows the process—and the area still may become unaffordable, and it may actually hurt the upward mobility of some folks, by making their investment less valuable, and it may push some to tear down a place instead of renting it out. You could encourage denser developments with some sort of mandatory set-asides for poorer long term residents. Assuming that folks honor that—it will still change the character of the neighborhood—assuming developers would want to build it, and achieving the balance to make something desirable, profitable, with many low income residents would be difficult. And, remember, that for many, their homes are part of their ‘upward mobility’. If you do things to slow or stop the increase in value, have you really helped anyone? Places change —folks move, folks die—new folks move in—the place will change over time—beyond that, every improvement you make in a neighborhood in a rapidly growing city makes it more valuable—improve the schools, make it safer, improve the infrastructure, attract better shops and restaurants, add more employers—you have created a pressure to make prices go up. So, besides *wanting* revitalization over gentrification in a rapidly growing city, how do you see achieving it?

Again the issue is not people moving in, it's people being price out

If more people already in the neighborhood where reaching upward mobility, it wouldn't matter if the price where going up, The residents themselves would be the ones driving up the prices. If there outside investment the first thing should be jobs,

The difference is priorities

Some of yall are making it seem yall care more about how nice an area look than the condition of the people. That the difference if people already living there lives don't improve talking about "improving" anything becomes pointless....

Better schools for who?

Safer community for who?

improve the infrastructure for who?

The People who need it aren't there to enjoy it, pointless.


Once an area is gentrify the problem don't disappear, the issue that once where in bad area of the city suddenly gets dump in another areas like South Dekab and etc making the area even worst.

It's like a kid pushing the stuff under the bed and telling his mom he clean his room.

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For WHOM! Sorry, my English teacher side got ignited! ;0)

[Gulch]

Looks like the runoff is heating up:

"Party of Trump?" Democrats launch ad linking Norwood to president | Political Insider

Georgia Democrats unleashed their most aggressive attack yet on Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood with a six-figure buy for a TV and radio spot that asks whether the city’s next leader should be “from the party of Trump.”

The ad criticizes Norwood for her participation in past GOP primaries and targets her campaign treasurer, Jamie Ensley, as an “unabashed Trump supporter.” It also slams her for her decision not to endorse Democrat Jon Ossoff in the June special election for the Sixth Congressional District.

The Democratic Party of Georgia’s ad is a reprisal of its strategy in 2009, when it relentlessly tried to paint her as a conservative ahead of her match-up with Kasim Reed.

This cycle, the party launched an online “Mary the Republican” campaign in October and has worked actively to promote Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms since her first-place finish in last week’s vote.

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Kwanza Hall endorses Keisha Lance Bottoms for mayor

I would have prefered Hall over Bottoms for mayor, but I have to agree with his endorsement.

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Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell Tuesday endorsed Councilwoman Mary Norwood for mayor.

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...source=twitter (paywall)

[Gulch]

Looks like Mitchell is endorsing Norwood:

War of words ratchets up in Atlanta mayor's race

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed unleashed another volley of insulting rhetoric in the race to succeed him, Tuesday, calling two political rivals “losers” at a City Hall press conference.

Asked about City Council President Ceasar Mitchell’s expected endorsement of Councilwoman Mary Norwood over Reed’s hand-picked candidate, Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms, Reed unloaded. The mayor slammed Mitchell, who failed to make the runoff in the Nov. 5 general election, for not presiding over the council at its regular meeting Monday.

“So Ceasar Mitchell supporting Mary Norwood is one man, one woman, two losers,” Reed said, eliciting laughter from assembled city staff at a press conference called about the sale of the Atlanta City Center to the city’s housing authority.

Norwood’s camp demanded an apology from Reed and called on Bottoms to do the same.

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Originally Posted by Gulch

Looks like Mitchell is endorsing Norwood:

War of words ratchets up in Atlanta mayor's race

Reed starting to get nasty

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Originally Posted by Gulch

Looks like Mitchell is endorsing Norwood:

War of words ratchets up in Atlanta mayor's race

Mayor Reed, keeping it classy.

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Wow. I had no idea Reed was such a jerk. He honestly acts like Trump at this point, he sees anyone going against him as an attack on his ego and lashes out.

Shame on him. He and Bottoms need to be kicked out of city hall. I'm glad Mitchell endorsed Mary, hopefully he can campaign for her.