WOODSTOCK — Cherokee County representatives are continuing discussions about affordable and workforce housing in the county.
The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce held a “Regional Issues Awareness” meeting Oct. 18 at the Chambers at City Center in downtown Woodstock.
Brantley Day, community development agency director with Cherokee County, Matt Bedsole, director of the city of Atlanta’s Housing Innovation Lab, and Alison Eltz, an intern with Cherokee County Community Development and junior at the Georgia Institute of Technology, discussed affordable and workforce housing strategies and what could be done in Cherokee.
Bedsole said Atlanta’s goal is to preserve or build 20,000 affordable housing units in the city by 2030.
“We just hit the halfway mark of this goal the other day — this number basically means that, to be successful, we would have doubled our production of affordable housing in the city compared to when this mayor entered office,” Bedsole said.
The city of Atlanta uses an affordable housing tracker to show the number of affordable housing units built and under construction, funding sources, where these units are in the city, and the number of units by income level, Bedsole said. The numbers are updated monthly.