Housing & Shelter

New Life Community Alliance (NLCA) is a faith-rooted nonprofit in Decatur that has helped South DeKalb neighbors for over two decades. They run a food pantry, a free clothing store, and barber/hair grooming services, plus GED classes, job and career help, and housing and eviction-prevention support. In 2025 they gave out more than 70,000 meals and helped over 300 families avoid eviction.

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NETWorks Cooperative Ministry is a group of churches in the Tucker, Northlake, and Embry Hills area that helps neighbors going through a crisis. They run a food pantry that gives out groceries, and they also help pay rent and utility bills so families can avoid eviction. NOTE: this is NOT the same as the food pantry at 6315 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs (that address belongs to Solidarity Sandy Springs); NETWorks is in Tucker.

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Making A Way Housing (MAWH) has provided housing for single homeless adults in southwest Atlanta since 2002. They offer emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing, plus 24/7 case management for people dealing with chronic homelessness, substance use, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. They also run a food pantry for residents on site.

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J. Grier Community Development Center is a faith-based nonprofit in Tucker, GA, founded by Dr. Janice Grier and connected to Greater New and Living Way International Deliverance Ministries. It helps low-income and homeless families with food and clothing, rent and utility assistance, and counseling. It also runs leadership and mentor training and a workforce program that offers resume and job-search help.

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Intown Cares (formerly Intown Collaborative Ministries) works to prevent and end homelessness and hunger in intown Atlanta. They run a free, no-ID food pantry that gives out groceries twice a week, and they help people who are living on the streets get into permanent housing using a Housing First approach. They do not run shelters themselves but connect neighbors to housing, documents, and other support.

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The Lord Lost Sheep Guiding Them Into Their Destiny, Inc. is a small faith-based nonprofit in Union City, Georgia. It offers transitional housing for adult men, including homeless veterans, who need a stable place to stay while they get back on their feet. Call ahead, as it is a small organization and bed space is limited.

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Hosea Helps (formerly Hosea Feed the Hungry) is a long-running Atlanta nonprofit that fights hunger and homelessness. They hand out emergency food and water, help people apply for food stamps, and screen families to see if they qualify for rent and utility help. They also run big holiday meal events and programs for children, women, and people facing homelessness.

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The Grove CDC is the nonprofit arm of Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in southeast Atlanta. It runs the Love Center Food Pantry and helps neighbors with food, senior housing, homeless outreach, free counseling, and programs for kids and families across Metro Atlanta.

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The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center is a nonprofit law firm that helps families who inherited land or a home without a clear legal owner. They clear tangled property titles, write wills and estate plans, and teach families how to protect and pass down their land so it stays in the family. Their help is for low- and moderate-income Georgia property owners.

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Emmaus House is a faith-rooted community organization in Atlanta's Peoplestown neighborhood that works to help families move out of poverty. They run a food pantry, give emergency help with rent and utilities, offer case management, and provide education programs for children, youth, and adults.

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Community Assistance Center (CAC) is the largest human services nonprofit in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, helping neighbors avoid hunger and homelessness since 1987. They run a food pantry and thrift shop, and provide rent and utility help, free job training, English and adult-education classes, free tax help, and youth programs. In 2024 they served nearly 10,000 people and gave out about one million pounds of food.

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DEAM (Decatur-area Emergency Assistance Ministry) is a faith-based nonprofit run by 18 area churches that helps neighbors facing an emergency. By appointment, they give out emergency food and toiletries, help pay overdue water, gas, and electric bills, and help cover prescription costs. They also serve free weekday lunches to people who are unhoused.

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Clayton County Community Services Authority is a nonprofit community action agency that has fought poverty in the south metro Atlanta area since 1966. They help low-income families and seniors pay their power, gas, rent, and food bills, weatherize homes, and offer free early childhood education through Head Start. They serve Clayton, Henry, and Fayette counties.

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The Center for Family Resources (CFR) helps Cobb County families who are facing or close to homelessness. They offer rent and bill help to prevent eviction, a choice food pantry where you pick your own groceries, apartment placement, and job and savings coaching to help families get back on their feet.

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Another Chance of Atlanta is a nonprofit that helps people who are homeless or struggling to keep their housing. They run a free food pantry every Friday and offer housing help, rent and eviction help, emergency motel vouchers, supportive housing for veterans, and job-readiness support across metro Atlanta. They serve anyone in need, including families, men, women, and veterans.

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Antioch Urban Ministries (AUMI) is a faith-based nonprofit in Atlanta that helps people who are low-income, homeless, or in recovery. They run a weekly food bank, transitional housing for men and women in addiction recovery, a mentoring program for at-risk youth, and support services for seniors. Most help is free, and you must fill out a short intake form to join their housing or recovery programs.

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The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Dublin, Georgia that provides free or low-cost health care to military Veterans. It offers primary care, mental health counseling, women's health, pharmacy, rehabilitation, long-term nursing care, and housing help for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. It is the main hospital for the VA Dublin system, which also runs outpatient clinics in Macon, Albany, Brunswick, Milledgeville, Tifton, and Kathleen.

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NOTE: This directory entry is mislabeled — the name 'Communities in Schools of Georgia' does not match this phone, website, or address, which all belong to Wesley Woods Senior Living (a separate org; the real CIS of Georgia is at cisga.org / 101 Marietta St NW). The verified entity here, Wesley Woods Senior Living, is a faith-rooted nonprofit founded in 1953 that operates retirement and senior-living communities across Georgia. This is their corporate/administrative office at 1817 Clifton Rd NE; they offer independent living, assisted living/personal care, memory care, respite, and skilled nursing for older adults of all income levels.

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