Atlanta City Limits

What’s preventing the metro from growing?

Atlanta’s housing stock grew by 4.8% in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, that rate had fallen to 1.1%. It was just 0.6% in 2020-23. We see the same slowdown across Sunbelt cities, including Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami. Why?

The map below holds part of the answer. It’s a dot-density map of housing in and around the Atlanta metro. Each dot represents 20 housing…