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News Articles: housing

Dan Immergluck (left), Erik Provitt, Virginia Prescott (center), Bambie Hayes-Brown and Scotley Innis in the "On Second Thought" studio.

What Would It Take To Advance Fair Housing Today?

Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, we took a look at the state of fair housing and affordable housing in Georgia today.

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What Can The Fair Housing Act Tell Us 50 Years Later?

The Fair Housing Act is 50 years old this year. Former President Lyndon Johnson implemented this landmark piece of civil rights legislation days after...

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Lillie Ward burns her mortgage in a ceremony at Macon Area Habitat for Humanity recently.

To Celebrate The End Of Her Mortgage, She Burned It

How will you celebrate when you pay off your house? After 20 years in her home purchased with the help of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity , Lillie Ward...

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The auditorium, while shrunk by about two thirds after being divided into apartments near an entrance hallway, will still be used as a community center and performance space once AL Miller High School becomes low income housing.

From Historic School To Affordable Housing

Macon-Bibb County political leaders got their first look at an old school at the heart of a new housing development Tuesday. A few members of the Macon...

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During the ceremony kicking off the demolition of Tindall Heights in Macon, Georgia.

Some Of Georgia's Oldest Public Housing, Coming Down

Demolition formally began Monday in one of Macon’s oldest and largest public housing projects, Tindall Heights. During a ceremony that could have...

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Kenny Howell Jr. slides his sofa into place in the back of a moving truck on the Wednesday he picked to move himself, his girlfriend and their three kids from the Tindall Heights Housing Project to a new rental house.

Seen And Heard: Moving Out Of Public Housing

The tick tick tick with the turn of the key only meant one thing: this moving truck wasn't starting. Battery? Dead. Not too long before on this sunny...

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