November 6, 2025
Institutional Investors and Housing Affordability in Metro Atlanta
Georgia Public Policy Foundation examines the role of corporate buyers in housing affordability and homeownership trends.
Topic: Dallas
February 15, 2025 • Blog
At The Capitol, Legislative Days 14-17
Lawmakers advanced tort reform and tax relief measures this week.
February 1, 2025 • Blog
At The Capitol: Legislative Days 6-9
Lawmakers returned to the Capitol this week after inclement weather throughout the state postponed budget hearings that were supposed to be held last week.
January 31, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 31, 2025
This year marks the 15th anniversary of National School Choice Week and an important moment in the history of the school choice movement.
February 16, 2024 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of February 12
The Georgia legislature passed the halfway point of the 2024 session this week as lawmakers continue their work before Crossover Day.
February 16, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 16, 2024
We can increase housing affordability, not with taxpayer subsidies, but by removing regulations that limit what types of houses can be built and where.
February 9, 2024 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of February 5
Lawmakers are busy as they near the halfway point of the 2024 legislative session.
February 9, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 9, 2024
Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia legislators are protecting workers’ right to privacy in union elections
January 19, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 19, 2024
Why does Georgia continue to be one of the fastest growing states in the country?
November 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 10, 2023
Gov. Kemp extends suspension of gas tax until the end of November.
August 31, 2023 • Commentary
Blame Congress for summer’s aviation problems
Without major institutional reform, the FAA will continue to struggle with congestion and delays.
March 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 10, 2023
It’s Friday! The Georgia legislature has advanced two issues that lawmakers have been debating under the Gold Dome for years. In some cases, decades. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. […]
March 10, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of March 6
A recap of the ninth week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
February 17, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 17, 2023
It’s Friday! Some bad ideas just won’t go away. MARTA released details last fall on a plan to extend its streetcar 2.5 miles to Atlanta’s Beltline. Previously, the Georgia Public […]
February 17, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of February 13
A recap of the sixth week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
December 10, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 10, 2021
Kyle Wingfield is recuperating from surgery and will be back in the office in the new year.
November 4, 2021 • Blog
Short-Term Rental Regulation: Public Protection or Party Poopers?
Short-term rentals are exploding in popularity, and increasingly on the radar of regulators.
February 28, 2020
Friday Facts: February 28, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Overall, the evidence indicates that occupational licensing limits workers’ ability to enter professions or move to new areas with greater opportunity.” – Council of Economic […]
August 9, 2019
Friday Facts: August 9, 2019
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. … Such laws make things worse […]
May 30, 2019 • Press Release
2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum Speaker Biographies
Judge Steven C. Teske, Morning Keynote Speaker Judge Steven C. Teske is the Chief Judge of the Juvenile Court of the Clayton Judicial Circuit. He was appointed juvenile court judge […]
May 24, 2019
Friday Facts: May 24, 2019
It’s Friday! Mark your calendar! The 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum will take place on Friday, November 15, at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. Details to follow; click here to view […]
May 10, 2019
Friday Facts: May 10, 2019
It’s Friday! Events May 23: The deadline is Tuesday, May 21, to register for “You Can Say That: How Courage Can Defeat Political Correctness,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon with […]
January 19, 2018
Friday Facts: January 19, 2018
It’s Friday! Events January 23: Today is the deadline to register for the Foundation’s first event of 2018 on Tuesday, January 23. About 32,000 events will celebrate National School Choice […]
June 17, 2016
Friday Facts: June 17, 2016
It’s Friday! Then and Now: In 1991, when the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was established, electronic messages were hardly the norm; the term “email” gained popularity by 1993. Today, According […]
June 8, 2016
AJC Quotes Foundation on Atlanta Streetcar
The Sunday June 5, 2016 edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution included a column by its Senior Managing Editor on the Atlanta Streetcar entitled, “Boondoggle or future boon?” in which Foundation Vice […]
April 15, 2016
Transit’s Future is in Innovation, Not in Trains
Continuing to resort to 19th-century technology is unwise when a 21st-century generation prefers flexibility and innovative, personalized transit options. By Benita Dodd Rail transit as a mass transportation mode is […]
February 11, 2016
Heartland Quotes Senior Fellow Ben Scafidi on Proposed Education Reforms
Scafidi says treating charter schools and traditional government schools equally under the law helps everyone. Kenneth Artz of the Heartland Institute interviewed Foundation Senior Fellow Ben Scafidi on the Georgia […]
April 16, 2015
The Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal
How the APS cheating school was uncovered. In 2011, Lisa Coston of Courthouse News Service reported the findings of the Governor’s office of Student Achievement about widespread cheating at Atlanta Public Schools. […]
April 14, 2015
Checking Up On Health: April 14, 2015
An HIV outbreak and how the IRS is rewriting the rules on the Affordable Care Act. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd It’s not just the […]
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