The total sum of past-due rent cited in the lawsuits is just $4,900, a figure that could have been covered by one of Warnock’s monthly housing stipends from the church. The building has received over $15 million in taxpayer funding.Ī dozen eviction lawsuits were filed against Columbia Tower residents over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the first one in February 2020 and, most recently, in September 2022. The average rent owed by the residents clocked in at just $125 a month. Since early 2020, 12 eviction lawsuits have been filed against residents of Columbia Tower at MLK Village, which Warnock's church owns 99% of. The church is the 99 percent owner of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which describe the building as a home for the “chronically homeless” and those with “mental disabilities.” The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr adds:

Reverend Raphael Warnock August 1, 2020 My opponents are supposed to be serving the people in Washington, but they're clearly only concerned with serving their own interests

Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic. This, after Warnock noted on Twitter as he campaigned for his office in 2020: “Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic,” adding that by failing to act, his political opponents were “clearly only concerned with serving their own interests.”

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