2025 City of Atlanta ballot endoresements

ThreadATL endorses these candidates in the City Council race for 2025 (these are just the races where there are competitors to choose between):

Council President
Rohit Malhotra

Post 1
Juan Mendoza

District 2
Jacob Chambers

District 4
Jason Dozier

District 7
Thomas Worthy

District 9
Dustin Hillis

District 11
Nate Jester

District 12
Antonio Lewis

Homestead Exemption

Atlanta voters will also see a homestead exemption measure on the ballot, and you can read about it at the Center for Civic Innovation site: https://civicatlanta.org/blog/atlanta-senior-tax-exemption-2025-ballot

It would give an additional exemption from property taxes for Atlanta Public Schools (APS) to homeowners age 65 and older, *regardless of their income*. That last part is important.

If the intention is to give financial assistance to lower-income residents, surely there are other ways we could do this without hurting schools. As it is, the measure will heavily benefit wealthier home owners, and it provides no benefit to renters.