Atlanta’s historic Grove Park, well-known for its many neighborhood clubs, was once a prosperous community for Black families and businesses in the West Side. However, decades of discriminatory divestment eventually led to the neighborhood’s economic collapse, resulting in population decreases and school closures. Today, Grove Park has no supermarket and no pharmacy.
Two single-family homes are now built and ready for new owners in Buffalo's Riverside neighborhood, after the regional land bank worked with a minority- and women-owned construction firm to build the houses on formerly empty lots.
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot announced microgrants grants for 11 projects across the city that promote affordability and walkable, people-friendly streets near transit as part of the city’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Pilot Program.
A developer has broken ground on a two-building, 65-unit senior housing complex in Vineland, helping to repurpose the former site of a hospital that closed in 2004.
The $15.8 million rehab and conversion of the former elementary school into 50 apartments is the last of a trio of projects by the Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority and Enterprise Community Development to provide replacement housing for residents of the towers, which RRHA is looking to redevelop as mixed-income housing.