Atlanta's Mayoral Runoff Could Come Down To Affordable Housing. Here's Where The Candidates Stand Affordable housing and gentrification are likely to be front-and-center issues in this year’s Atlanta mayoral election, now down to its final two candidates, Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore and Council Member Andre Dickens, who will square off in a Nov. 30 runoff. Much of the build-up to Tuesday’s general election also centered on the increase in the city’s crime, but now that former Mayor Kasim Reed has conceded after running a close third behind Dickens, affordability is likely to come to the fore, said Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the School for Public & International Affairs at the University of Georgia. 
“Reed stressed during his campaign that the city was safer when he was mayor and he was going to restore that. They're not going to hear that message now,” Bullock said. “Questions about housing seem to be [the] No. 2 [campaign topic] anyway. Now it may get additional traction as…  Read the full story here. | 
