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The State of City Infrastructure

Streets and roads, water systems, and sewer infrastructure are facing growing capital pressures in cities across the country, according to a new report from the National League of Cities. Georgia cities are feeling the same pressure, projecting $33 billion in capital needs over the next five years.

U.S. Supreme Court Significantly Reshapes Voting Rights Act Redistricting Standards

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling has made it harder for cities to use racial demographics as a primary factor in drawing district and ward maps, even when those decisions were intended to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

How Georgia Cities Are Tackling Housing

Housing has been a growing focus for Georgia cities and for GMA. At the association's May 1 Board of Directors meeting in College Park, GMA staff outlined the organization's policy work and efforts to document what cities are doing on housing, and board members from six cities shared what's happening in their own communities.

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The State of City Infrastructure

Streets and roads, water systems, and sewer infrastructure are facing growing capital pressures in cities across the country, according to a new report from the National League of Cities. Georgia cities are feeling the same pressure, projecting $33 billion in capital needs over the next five years.

Elections & Redistricting

U.S. Supreme Court Significantly Reshapes Voting Rights Act Redistricting Standards

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling has made it harder for cities to use racial demographics as a primary factor in drawing district and ward maps, even when those decisions were intended to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

How Georgia Cities Are Tackling Housing

Housing has been a growing focus for Georgia cities and for GMA. At the association's May 1 Board of Directors meeting in College Park, GMA staff outlined the organization's policy work and efforts to document what cities are doing on housing, and board members from six cities shared what's happening in their own communities.

GMA, Realtors Take on Georgia's Housing Shortage

GMA's Larry Hanson and Georgia Association of Realtors CEO Brad Mock came at Georgia's shortage of 60,000 housing units from different angles at a Georgia Chamber Foundation meeting recently, but agreed that the problem runs deeper than the most common explanations suggest.

Downtown Development | Economic Development

Rebuilding Homerville: A Community Vision Sparks Downtown Renewal

After two decades of decline following a highway project that wiped out an entire downtown block, Homerville is rebuilding — and a community-driven planning process is turning vacant storefronts into gathering spaces, new businesses and $5 million in added property value.