Homeless shelter and its legal battle keep going and going
For more than five years, a highly contentious legal battle has been raging over the Peachtree and Pine homeless shelter in Atlanta.
The building went into foreclosure in a fight stemming from the Metro Task Force for the Homeless’s inability to pay its bills.
This past Sunday, 505 people — 400 men and 105 women and children — spent the night at the shelter, no doubt thankful to be safe from the below-freezing temperatures outdoors.
Now both sides in the suits and countersuits say they're grateful for a unanimous Georgia Supreme Court ruling Monday that a jury should decide whether the foreclosure sale of the task force's building was illegal.
The court also said a jury should decide whether business leaders conspired to interfere with the task force’s donors to deprive the shelter of the funding it needed to stay afloat.
Who are the defendants? And how does Mayor Kasim Reed, who is NOT a defendant, fit into all this?
About the Author
Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.
