An unidentified speaker said the mayor's "strike force" will use the Atlanta Urban Development Corporation and an intergovernmental agreement to move city funding into development of nine vacant Atlanta Public Schools properties for affordable housing.

The speaker said the initiative will address housing for both people who are unhoused and the city's workforce. "The strike force is the mayor's initiative to address affordable housing," the speaker said, adding the program will operate "in a variety of ways."

According to the speaker, the legislation tied to the initiative "particularly addresses the Atlanta Urban Development Corporation," a separate entity that holds publicly owned land for development. The speaker said some of that land includes "the 9 vacant properties that Atlanta public schools get turn to the city to develop affordable housing."

The speaker described an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) as the mechanism for funding: the IGA "allows that funding to go through the city and so the city can ... transfer that funding to the development corporation to move forward with those projects," the speaker said.

The speaker also offered personal context, saying they served on the school board and chaired it when the AUDC was created in partnership with the city. "I was on the school board at the time. I chaired the board at the time when we developed the AUDC in conjunction with the city," they said.

The speaker concluded by saying they are now working to "start pulling the funding together so we can do some great innovative things in housing and affordability for our city." No formal motion or vote was recorded in the provided transcript.