The Affordable Housing Budget: A Step Backwards

In June of 2022, City Council voted down legislation authorizing the mayor to close the jail. Then plans came out in early August that we're in talks to rent 700 beds from the facility to Fulton County. Activists warned that the lease would not alleviate these issues and that City Council needed to instead focus on decarceration. A new report found 45% of the overall jail population in Fulton County is unindicted.