Hattie B. Dorsey’s legacy of affordable housing lives on

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin (above) spoke about her late friend Hattie B. Dorsey during a street-naming ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 27 in Southwest Atlanta. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta VoiceThe first female mayor in the history of Atlanta took a short walk from her seat to the podium under the tent and began to speak. Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, the 58th Mayor of Atlanta, took a few moments to speak about a dear friend, the late Hattie B. Dorsey.& “Hattie is here with us,” Franklin said of the late affordable housing advocate and founding president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc (ANDP). “It was not an easy fight, there were doubters, but Hattie plowed incredible territory. She was dogged and she was right.”& A new, nearly 100% occupied townhouse subdivision near the corner Campbellton Rd. and Star Mist Drive in Southwest Atlanta is one of those projects that Dorsey was fighting to be built in the SWATS. Dorsey passed away on May 25, 2024, but her legacy lives on in residential projects like Campbellton X, according to Franklin and the many other people that spoke on her behalf on Tuesday. A street sign within the...