Market Value Analysis: City of Atlanta and Atlanta Metro Area

In 2024, Reinvestment Fund released its first Market Value Analyses (MVAs) for the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Metro Area. The MVA for Atlanta identifies nine different types of residential markets across the city and nine types of markets in the five-county region, and highlights places where strategic intervention can stimulate private market activity, serve cost-burdened residents, or accomplish related policy goals.  

In addition to highlighting important information about Metro Atlanta, the MVAs point to several policy interventions that local officials and their partners can implement to address the affordability crisis and disparities, including the realignment of public subsidies with private investment and regulatory refinement to support more affordably priced housing options across the region. Based on the MVA, Reinvestment Fund’s team recommends efforts to preserve existing affordable units and incentivize new affordable units in middle and stronger markets where prices and permitting activity are highest, home repair programs and strategic code enforcement in middle and more distressed markets, and targeted interventions to reduce foreclosures and curb evictions in the most distressed markets areas, along with outreach to low-income homeowners who may feel pressured to sell to investors. 

Above all, the analysis highlights the need for more equitable development across the region and for an expanded approach to affordable housing that includes the use of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) in higher opportunity markets, preservation of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH), and infill development in underutilized urban spaces. The MVA highlights that the best path toward promoting equity in housing access comes from a data-driven approach to guide targeted interventions.  

City of Atlanta 2024 MVA  Atlanta Metro Area 2024 MVA