A sought-after Virginia neighborhood that once held a church is now filled with affordable housing.
For nearly 60 years, a spot that now occupies apartments in Alexandria, Virginia was home to the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection.
"We've had a food pantry for a number of years now, and so at least during the food distribution, before we made some decisions, you know, the people working there would ask, 'What what do you need?'" Faga said."And it was always, you know, food and shelter." "Anywhere from 48,000 to 180,000 units of rental housing could potentially be built on the land just in those five jurisdictions in the DMV region," said David Bowers, senior adviser of the faith-based development initiative at Enterprise Community Partners.
In Atlanta, Georgia, Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church pastor William Flippen Sr. recognized the possibilities years ago, with a dream to use 50-plus acres of unused church property to build affordable housing for seniors. Now they're looking at a waiting list of over 7,000 people."The housing rates are going up," said pastor Chianti Harris, executive director of The Grove CDC."Taxes are going up. The incomes are not.
"Sometimes the zoning may restrict what can be done where a house of worship is," Bowers said."And so the ability to build residential or how much residential can be built — sometimes that's a barrier." The group was looking to turn a former church building into dormitory-style living for unhoused people, but it took some convincing.
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