Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, city housing developers, and longtime community residents gathered Tuesday morning in the Atlanta summer heat for the groundbreaking ceremony of a new affordable housing complex being built in the Sylvan Hills neighborhood.
The 233-unit complex is the second phase of redevelopment for the community, following its construction of senior living apartments that were built in the neighborhood in 2022.
“Affordable housing is my love language,” said Dickens during the groundbreaking ceremony. One of his main motives when entering office in 2022 was to have 20,000 affordable housing units built in the city by 2030…