Community Impact Partnership

A fair assessment for the
neighborhoods that need it most.

In the South Fulton triangle, homeowners are overassessed at two to five times the rate of north Fulton — and most have no path to a fair assessment on their own. The Community Impact Partnership changes that, through community organizations who already serve these families.

Where overassessment concentrates

Jasmine Lane's scoring engine has analyzed every residential property in Fulton County against real, assessor-validated comparable sales. The pattern is unmistakable. In the four cities of the South Fulton triangle — South Fulton, East Point, Union City, and Fairburn — between roughly one in seven and one in four homeowners are overassessed, two to five times the rate of the north Fulton corridor.

These are the homeowners with the least margin to absorb an unfair tax bill, and the least access to the comparable-sales analysis and hearing know-how it takes to fix one.

A pattern with a history

In April 2026, the Fulton County Reparations Task Force released a 615-page, county-funded Harm Report — the first of its kind in the country to focus on a single county's history of racial discrimination. The assessor's office sits at the center of its findings.

In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Fulton County Board of Assessors lowered white-owned property values by 63% while continuing to assess Black-owned property at higher rates with no parallel relief. For years, Black-owned property carried a tax burden three to four times that of white-owned property. The same office produced that record — and today's overassessment is concentrated in the very same communities.

CIP is not a reparations program. It is one practical, contingency-funded way to restore some of what the assessment process continues to take — a paid path to a fair assessment for the legacy residents who have the least room to absorb the unfairness.

How it works

CIP rests on two co-equal pillars, both carried so that the homeowner pays nothing.

Sponsored appeals

A sponsoring organization underwrites appeals for overassessed homeowners in its service area at a discounted rate. We handle the check, the filing, and the hearing. The homeowner pays nothing.

Local hearing representatives

The sponsor nominates trusted community members, and Jasmine Lane trains and certifies them to present cases before the county Board of Equalization for their neighbors — a paid workforce-development pathway we fund entirely.

The result is a complete housing-stability program: a lower tax burden for cost-burdened homeowners, new capacity built inside the community, and measurable outcomes a sponsor can report to its funders and constituents.

For organizations

Sponsor a community.

If your organization serves homeowners in South Fulton, CIP gives you a new tool for the families you already help. Tell us about your community and we'll walk you through it.

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For homeowners

See if you're overcharged.

You don't need a sponsor to check. Enter your address and we'll tell you, in about 15 seconds, whether your home looks overassessed. It costs nothing to find out.

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