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• Typical DeKalb County mortgage now costs more than 50% of household income

  06-12-2022 23:16
  Rising mortgage rates, high home prices and stagnant wages are creating an affordability crunch in DeKalb County.
  
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• Kaiser Permanente supports metro Atlanta communities to end homelessness

  06-12-2022 22:44
  Kaiser Permanente is supporting four metro Atlanta organizations whose work focuses on addressing homelessness in their communities. The grants are part of Kaiser Permanente’s ongoing commitment to end homelessness and preserve affordable housing by making strategic grants, shaping policy and catalyzing innovative partnerships.Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. will support the “2022-2023 Affordable Housing Investment in South DeKalb County and Clayton County” i
  
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• Equifax on the prowl to replace top-earning executive Sid Singh

  06-12-2022 21:35
  Sid Singh, president of U.S. information solutions at Equifax, is stepping back from his role after three years in the position. At the end of 2021, Singh was the fifth highest paid employee at Equifax.
  
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• Warnock vs Walker: Georgia voters decide last Senate seat

  06-12-2022 18:25 via cbsnews.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — On December 6, 2022, Georgia voters will decide the final Senate contest in the country, choosing between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican football legend Herschel Walker after a four-week runoff blitz that has drawn a flood of outside spending to an increasingly personal fight.This year's runoff has lower stakes than the two in 2021, when victories by Warnock and fellow Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff gave Democrats control of the Senate. But it's still important:
  
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• Voter outreach organizations final push

  06-12-2022 18:07 via cbsnews.com
  ATLANTA, Ga. (WUPA) -- Full scale voter outreach efforts were underway on Monday, as advocates hit the ground urging voters to hit the polls on Tuesday's runoff election between Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.Members of the Young Black Lawyers Organizing Coalition canvassed the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Joseph E. Lowry Boulevard area in the rain during a final push to rally voters one day before the runoff election."What we want to do as young
  
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