Partners for Home, the nonprofit agency that implements the city of Atlanta’s homeless strategy, is leading an ambitious effort to endhomelessness in the downtown area ahead of next year’s FIFA World Cup.
Some advocates for homeless people and alternatives to incarceration have grave concerns that the city has not been transparent about the plan and are concerned about how the effort will affect unsheltered people who reject services or can’t be housed.
According to a draft document reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the city wants to house 400 unsheltered people by the end of 2025. Dubbed “Downtown Rising,” the document outlines how the program has coalesced around a “North Star” goal of eliminating homelessness in the downtown area in time for one of the largest sporting events in the world…