🏡Housing Affordability

A Home for All: Delvin’s Vision for Affordable Housing in Atlanta

Affordable housing is a cornerstone of our community's stability and growth. Delvin is dedicated to ensuring that every resident of Atlanta, especially those in District 12, can find a safe and accessible place to call home.

Atlanta must be a city where working families, seniors, students, and essential workers can afford to live—not just survive. We cannot call it progress if the people who built this city—those who taught in our schools, served in our hospitals, ran our small businesses, and kept our neighborhoods strong—are being priced out and pushed out.

Atlanta is not truly growing if it’s displacing the very people who built it.

Housing is a human right, and as your next City Council member, Delvin will fight for bold, people-first policies that deliver deeply affordable, safe, and dignified housing for all—not just for some.

1. Activate Public Land for Public Good

  • Partner with the Atlanta Housing Authority and Invest Atlanta to develop underutilized, city-owned properties into deeply affordable and mixed-income housing.

  • Encourage and prioritize development that serves households earning 40–60% of the Area Median Income (AMI)—the people most in need.

2. Invest in Permanent Affordability

  • Expand funding for the “Building the Beloved Community” Trust Fund, and ensure that these dollars are strictly allocated to affordable housing initiatives, not diverted elsewhere.

  • Partner with nonprofit developers and community land trusts to create permanently affordable housing that resists market pressure and keeps communities intact.

3. Make Affordability Work for Developers—and Communities

  • Expand density bonuses and reduce permitting fees for developers who go beyond minimum affordability requirements.

  • Prioritize community benefit agreements in new developments to ensure residents see real returns in housing, jobs, and public infrastructure.

4. Build Smart, Build Equitably

  • Advocate for zoning reform to allow for duplexes, triplexes, ADUs, and other housing types that increase supply and affordability—especially near MARTA lines and job centers.

  • Support mixed-income housing that doesn’t isolate low-income families but instead builds integrated, thriving neighborhoods.