127 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Safe Care Homes Group, Inc. provides affordable shared housing and supportive services for people in metro Atlanta and Georgia who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, low-income, disabled, seniors, veterans, or in recovery. They help with housing, case management, community resources, benefit help, transportation help, food and clothing connections, and representative payee services.
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Code of Support Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps service members, veterans, caregivers, and their families find support. They offer one-on-one case coordination and a free online resource search tool called PATRIOTlink for needs like housing, benefits, health care, jobs, legal help, and financial stress.
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Our House helps Atlanta-area families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. They offer family shelter, early childhood education, free health care, job training, rapid rehousing help, and case management.
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Golden Promise Alliance offers affordable shared housing and housing support for independent adults in Atlanta and nearby areas. They focus on displaced adults, veterans, seniors, and people living on SSI or SSDI who need stable housing and community support.
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Anchor Haven Solutions provides drug- and alcohol-free supportive housing for adults in Atlanta and nearby communities. They offer furnished private or shared rooms, utilities, shared kitchens, laundry access or hookups, monthly cleaning schedules, errand runs, and help connecting residents with community resources.
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HUD is a federal housing agency with an Atlanta Field Office. It does not usually give direct emergency help, but it connects people to housing counselors, public housing authorities, fair housing complaint help, affordable housing search tools, and disaster housing resources.
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HUD is the federal housing agency, and its Atlanta Field Office serves Georgia. HUD is not a direct shelter or rent-aid provider, but it helps people find housing resources, file housing discrimination complaints, contact housing counselors, and connect with public housing, voucher, FHA, disaster, and eviction resources.
7 services
The Urban League of Greater Atlanta helps people build stable, better lives through jobs, money, housing, and small-business support. They offer job training and career help, housing and homeownership counseling, emergency assistance, financial coaching, entrepreneur support, and a re-entry program for people returning from incarceration. They serve youth, adults, families, and returning citizens across Metro Atlanta.
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The organization on file as "Food Finder GA" at this phone and address is actually Margie's House, a Fairburn nonprofit that fights hunger, homelessness, and poverty in south Fulton County. They run a food pantry and monthly food giveaways, a clothing closet, and deliver food boxes to seniors, plus housing placement help, financial education, mentoring, and counseling. The pantry is open to the public with no eligibility requirements.
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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 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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The Atlanta Beltline Partnership runs the Legacy Resident Retention Program (LRRP), which helps longtime homeowners in Westside and Southside Beltline neighborhoods stay in their homes. If you qualify, the program pays the increase in your property taxes through 2030 so you only owe your 2019 tax amount. There are also free workshops on homeownership, taxes, and money.
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Invest Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's official economic development authority. For everyday residents, they help people buy a home inside Atlanta city limits by offering down payment assistance — grants of $10,000 to $20,000 that are forgiven if you live in the home for 5 years. To use these programs you take a homebuyer class and work with an approved lender.
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Poverty 2 Prosperity PS is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded in 2020, that helps Georgia families move out of poverty toward financial stability. They offer food assistance, financial planning and credit-building help, first-time homebuyer preparation, and a youth program that teaches budgeting, saving, and life skills.
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Family Promise of Gwinnett County helps families with children who have lost their housing get back into stable homes. They offer short-term shelter, a day center, case management and coaching, and ongoing support so families don't become homeless again.
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Georgia Mortgage Assistance was the state's Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) program, run by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. It helped homeowners hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic catch up on past-due mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance, and utility bills to avoid foreclosure. The program stopped taking new applications in spring 2026, so new applicants can no longer apply.
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Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP) builds and sells affordable homes and helps families become homeowners in metro Atlanta. They offer down payment assistance of up to $20,000, homebuyer education and counseling, and special help for veterans and first-generation buyers. You apply through your mortgage lender.
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The Homeownership Urban Blueprint (The HUB) is a free online portal run by the Urban League of Greater Atlanta that helps people of color buy and keep a home. It connects you with HUD-approved homebuyer classes, one-on-one housing counselors, credit-building help, and down payment assistance programs. It's part of the Wells Fargo WORTH initiative working to create thousands of new homeowners across metro Atlanta.
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Georgia Dream is a state program run by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs that helps people buy their first home. It offers affordable 30-year fixed-rate mortgages plus a no-interest loan to help cover the down payment and closing costs. You also take a homebuyer education class, and you apply through one of their approved local lenders.
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The Housing Help Center is the City of Atlanta's official one-stop housing resource office. Staff (called navigators) help Atlanta residents find and keep safe, affordable housing by connecting them to rental and utility assistance, eviction prevention, legal aid, code enforcement help, emergency relocation, and homeownership programs. You can fill out an intake form online, call, or visit their downtown office near Five Points MARTA.
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