Peachtree-Pine Shelter
The Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter is located at 477 Peachtree Street NE, at the corner of Pine Street in the SoNo subdistrict of Downtown Atlanta, just south of Midtown. The 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) building, which is within sight of Fox Theatre and Bank of America Plaza, stretches from Peachtree Street in the front to Courtland Street in the back. It is currently run by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, whose executive director is Anita Beaty. The facility can house up to 700 homeless men each night, although some sources say it can house up to 1000.
Almost since its opening in 1997, neighbors and neighborhood organizations have complained about unsanitary conditions, loitering, drug sales, and violent crimes in the immediate vicinity of the shelter, to a degree far more intense than occurs around other shelters in the city, blaming poor management of Peachtree-Pine as the root cause. The shelter has also been the site of Tuberculosis outbreaks. In 2014, Mayor Kasim Reed declared that "Peachtree-Pine is awful. It has rampant drug sales, and it poses a serious risk to the health of people in the City of Atlanta”. The Task Force, on the other hand, has filed multiple lawsuits accusing the city officials, downtown business organizations, and Emory University (which operates a hospital across from the shelter) of having conspired to dry up its funding sources and force it out of business through Tortious interference, Defamation and other illegal means.
The shelter's troubled relations with the surrounding community, including its long running legal battles with the City Hall and other organizations, have been covered extensively in local publications such as Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing, and Atlanta Business Chronicle. There have also been in depth reports in national media.
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