Leaders of some of Georgia’s most prominent tenant advocacy organizations are calling for a moratorium on evictions in response to the scale of the region’s eviction crisis and its oversized impact on Black families.
Members of the Housing Justice League, Georgia Advancing Communities Together, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation issued demands Saturday for state lawmakers to take legislative action. They hosted a “Housing Can’t Wait” press event at Liberty Plaza downtown aimed at stopping the displacement of the local area’s legacy Black population.
About 35 protestors wielding signs with slogans like “Priced out. Pushed out. Fed Up,” “We Need Keys, Not Excuses,” and “Housing Is A Right, Not A Reward,” stood in the shadow of the Gold Dome. Motorists driving by honked their horns in support…