AVLF’s Safe and Stable Homes team was honored with two special awards this month, which recognize their commitment to lifting Atlanta communities.

11Alive met with a Forest Cove resident and AVLF staff to discuss the housing issues that students and tenants face in the Thomasville Heights neighborhood.

The nationally broadcast segment investigated the impact of AVLF’s Standing with Our Neighbors program on the Thomasville Heights community.

Morgan & Morgan attorney Adian Miller’s disabled client and her son rented an apartment that flooded. A little attorney time can go a long way – sometimes all it takes is a stern demand letter to transform someone’s life.

The Attorney-Legal Assistant Partnership connects volunteer attorneys in need of additional help to volunteer legal assistants who are seeking a more immersive pro bono experience.

Community Advocate Christal Reynolds’s parents would often take in strangers who needed a warm place to sleep and a hand up. Decades later, the example her parents set guides her work in Thomasville Heights. 

The foundation recognized AVLF for the preventative health work our programs accomplish. 

Ms. Cochran walked into the courthouse flanked by two attorneys, two damages experts, a mold expert, two witnesses from the apartment building, and an officer with the Atlanta Police Department’s Code Enforcement Section, Ms. Cochran walked into the courtroom with an army.

Safe and Stable Homes Director Cole Thaler tells the story of veteran and mother Bobbi Ann Jones. 

The story focuses on Starwood Waypoint Homes, the largest owner of single-family homes in the country, and their bad track record when it comes to making repairs.

AVLF attended eight fall festivals in October, weaving tenants’ rights information into fun and games for the whole family.

This fall, Standing with Our Neighbors expanded from one school to seven.