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: Georgia State University
July 29, 2025
Short Supply: How Many More Homes Does Georgia Need?
Georgia is growing fast—adding more than a million new residents each decade. But housing construction hasn’t kept pace.
June 20, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 20, 2025
The budget year that begins July 1 will be the third straight with no “bond package,” as that section is typically called.
May 2, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 2, 2025
Why are microschools gaining momentum, especially here in Georgia? We talk about that in this week’s commentary.
September 11, 2024 • Commentary
How well do colleges in Georgia protect free speech?
Free speech and college are supposed to go together. But we know that isn't usually the case.
June 14, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 14, 2024
Why Georgia needs to be serious about tort reform.
June 7, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 7, 2024
In Georgia, the four largest health systems currently account for 51.6% of hospital beds available statewide.
May 17, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 17, 2024
Much of this increase in house prices is not due to market forces, but rather dictated by a complex system of regulatory factors that increase costs.
April 25, 2024 • Commentary
Is this Georgia fee still constitutional?
Until recently, impact fees were believed to be immune from attacks under the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution. What has changed?
March 29, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 29, 2024
This year, we saw positive movement on school choice, Certificate of Need reform and tax reform.
August 4, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 4, 2023
A list that gets its subject matter exactly backward makes me stop and wonder what’s going on.
June 29, 2023 • Commentary
Lack of emphasis on civics, government and political history is astonishing
These topics need to be emphasized, not shunted aside. We have lost our sense of citizenship in this country.
June 15, 2023 • Commentary
Georgia legislature begins review of state tax credits
The largest and most well-known of these programs is the film tax credit, costing the state nearly $900 million last year.
March 20, 2023
Economic Report on Georgia’s Certificate of Need Program
Despite their inception nearly fifty years ago, ongoing questions about cost, access and the role of community healthcare remain.
January 3, 2023 • Blog
Brazen acts of government waste, fraud, and abuse reported throughout Georgia
Recent stories about waste, fraud, or abuse of taxpayer money throughout Georgia.
September 29, 2022 • Blog
Atlanta, It’s Time For Renovations.
Few things in nature flourish with a rotten core.
May 27, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 27, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note“Duty, honor, country. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur […]
July 2, 2021
Friday Facts: July 02, 2021
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and […]
July 31, 2020
Friday Facts: July 31, 2020
It’s Friday! Looking for the 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum? The Foundation is recording each Zoom session for our YouTube channel! View the July 15 opening keynote, “An Education Conversation” […]
June 19, 2020
Friday Facts: June 19, 2020
It’s Friday! This is Week 14 of the Friday Facts’ focus on the coronavirus pandemic across the nation and in Georgia. View previous editions here. View the Foundation’s near-term proposals […]
April 17, 2020
Friday Facts: April 17, 2020
It’s Friday! This is the fifth Friday Facts edition to focus on the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and Georgia. View previous editions here. View the Foundation’s near-term proposals here. […]
February 7, 2020 • Commentary
Pulling Back the Curtain on Georgia’s Budget Woes
Georgians are puzzled by an apparent dilemma: Why, in the middle of a booming economy and record-low unemployment, is the state government facing budget cuts?
July 26, 2019
From an Unlikely Source, Market-based Transit Policies
Public transportation is a highly debated topic in Georgia. Central to this debate is the allocation of federal funding through grants and tax revenues. By Jared Cooper Public transportation is […]
July 26, 2019
Friday Facts: July 26, 2019
It’s Friday! Events August 27: “Election Integrity: Facts, Fraud and Fiction” is the Foundation’s August noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at the Georgian Club. The speaker is Hans von Spakovsky, Senior […]
June 21, 2019
Friday Facts: June 21, 2019
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Men between the ages of 25 and 54 make up over 70 percent of the federal prison population, meaning those people are taken out of […]
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 […]
January 18, 2019
Faces Behind School Choice are as Diverse as the Options Ahead
The events and activities underscore the need for choice in children’s education: No two children are alike. They learn in different ways, in different environments and at different paces, and […]
February 2, 2018
College Fees: Sticker Shock for Georgia Families
College fees have become a shell game that allows colleges to shift academic costs to fees. Clarity is needed as the cost to families continues to rise. By Lee Brewer […]
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 […]
November 13, 2017
Foundation Mourns Passing of Dr. Michael H. Mescon, 2016 Freedom Award Recipient
Atlanta — Dr. Michael “Mike” H. Mescon, 2016 recipient of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Freedom Award, “father of economic education in Georgia,” and the man The Wall Street Journal once […]
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