Add It Up: It’s a hard knock life
December 5, 2008 at 5:00 am by Mary Moore in Add it upEstimated number of people who were homelessness in Fulton and DeKalb counties for at least part of 2007: 22,000
Number of homeless children enrolled in metro Atlanta schools: 17,267
Percentage of Atlantans interviewed in 2007 who reported job loss or unemployment as their reason for homelessness: 42
Percentage of unemployed Atlantans as of October 2007: 4.4
Percentage as of October 2008: 6.8
Average monthly rent, in dollars, for a two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta: 834
Current monthly welfare benefits, in dollars, for a woman and two children: 282
Number of donation meters installed in downtown Atlanta to discourage the homeless from panhandling: 5
Number of new meters to be installed in other Atlanta locations: 11
Dollars, per month, that Baltimore collects from 10 meters in its main tourism district: 100
Sources: Hands On Atlanta, Tri-Jurisdictional Homeless Census and Survey 2007, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Georgia Department of Labor, ajc.com
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