O.C.G.A.
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Housing Authorities Law.”
History
Ga. L. 1937, p. 210, § 1; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 1(b)(7)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024. Amendments. The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modern-
ize, and correct the Code, substituted “shall be known and may be cited” for “may be referred to” in this Code section.
BUILDINGS AND HOUSING
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Evidence in prosecution for possession of controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of public housing project. - Evidence was sufficient to sustain a defendant’s conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a public housing project as evidence that the public housing complex where drugs were found in the apartment of the defendant’s
girlfriend was under the jurisdiction of a housing authority, pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 8-3-1 and 8-3-2, was twice presented at trial, the evidence showed that the location consisted of dwelling units, and that these dwelling units were occupied by low and moderate income families. Robinson v. State, 314 Ga. App. 545, 724 S.E.2d 846, 2012 Ga. App. LEXIS 233 (2012).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms. 13B Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice
Forms, Housing Laws Redevelopment, § 2.
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in
8
cases (
6 in the last 5 years), 1996–2025 · leading case:
Robinson v. State, 724 S.E.2d 846 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012).
Robinson v. State, 724 S.E.2d 846 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012).
· cites it 6× “6 OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq. 7 OCGA § 8-3-3.1 (emphasis supplied).”
Hous. Auth. of Atlanta v. Jefferson, 476 S.E.2d 831 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 3× “[1] O.C.G.A. § 8-3-1 et seq. is the legislation under which local housing authorities such as AHA are created and governed.”
Karen Fuerst v. The Hous. Auth. of the City of Atlanta, Georgia, 38 F.4th 860 (11th Cir. 2022).
“The Atlanta Housing Authority AHA is a corporation organized under Georgia’s Housing Authorities Law, O.C.G.A. § 8-3-1, et seq. Its bylaws describe the organization’s mission to “provide quality, affordable housing in amenity rich, mixed-income communities for the betterment of…”
Guy v. Hous. Auth. of the City of Augusta, 321 Ga. 873 (Ga. 2025).
· cites it 4× “2 The General Assembly in 1937 passed the Housing Authorities Law, OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq. (“the Act”), declaring that “[i]n each city and in each county of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the ‘housing authority’ of the city or…”
Keyron Pass v. Athens Hous. Auth. a/k/a Hous. Auth. of the City of Athens (Ga. Ct. App. 2023).
· cites it 3× “” Turning now to the factors outlined in Miller and Kyle, it is clear that the State, through its enabling legislation at OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq., views housing authorities’ purpose in general as benefitting the low-income citizens of the State and saving money in terms of public…”
Charles W. Files v. the Hous. Authourity of the City of Douglas (Ga. Ct. App. 2023).
· cites it 3× “” Turning now to the factors outlined in Miller and Kyle, it is clear that the State, through its enabling legislation at OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq., views housing authorities’ purpose in general as benefitting the low-income citizens of the State and saving money in terms of public…”
Christina Guy v. the Hous. Auth. of the City of Augusta (Ga. Ct. App. 2024).
· cites it 2× “The Authority is defined in the Act as “a public body corporate and politic:” In each city and in each county of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the city or county; provided, however, that such authority…”
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