How a guaranteed income helps black women fight gentrification

How a guaranteed income helps black women fight gentrification

Cepia Harper was already fighting a losing battle to climb Atlanta’s socioeconomic ladder when the manager of her Midtown apartment complex gave her a month to find a new apartment. The property owners decided not to renew the single mother’s lease without telling her why, Harper said.

“She just said she didn’t have to do that,” Harper, 40, told Capital B Atlanta. “I had never missed a rent payment or anything like that, so I was confused.”

Unable to immediately afford a new home, Harper and her two school-aged children had to move into a friend’s rented two-story house in the […]

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