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A so-called “anti-squatters” bill will next go to the Senate Rules Committee, which determines which legislation will be heard in the chamber by April 4, the last day of this year’s legislative session.

Georgia Senate panel advances ‘anti-squatters’ legislation

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder
March 26, 2025
Carlos Ross holds the box containing the ashes of his son, Carmelo Ross, who was 15 when he was shot and killed at the same spot two other people were killed just a couple of years prior in Macon’s Anthony Homes, known to residents as Bird City.

Public housing authorities are angling for more legal protections. Where does that leave tenants?

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 7, 2025
Kennnesaw State University architecture students present their final designs for a mixed use development in Macon's Greenwood Bottom neighborhood to residents and community leaders.

For Kennesaw State students, the first step in revitalizing Macon’s Greenwood Bottom is listening

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 11, 2024
Pleasant Hill residents and an architectural rendering of an apartment block planned for the lot with the playground behind them after the announcement of Pleasant Hill Landing Sept. 19, 2024.

Pleasant Hill to get new affordable housing

Rent will be capped at $600 in the 64-apartment development
Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
September 20, 2024
A handful of Bibb County public school students boarded a bus at InTown Suites on Eisenhower Parkway early one dewy morning in August.

Number of homeless students in Georgia grows while funding to support them shrinks

Bibb County's homeless student population is underrepresented
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 12, 2024
The dormer of this house at 1783 First Ave. overlooks Jefferson Long Park and is down Craft Street from The Little Richard Resource House. The Georgia Department of Transportation paid CEA more than $180,000 to build it for a nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly.

Minimal oversight led to misspent money meant for Pleasant Hill, records show

GDOT paid $180,000 to build a home for nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2024
The Macon-Bibb County Community Enhancement Authority build this house at 231 Moughon Street Lane in 2020. Four years later, it is vacant with trash on the porch, boarded up windows and tall grass.

Macon authority created to fight poverty in Pleasant Hill can’t say how it spent millions

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 24, 2024
Albert Kenneth Knight Jr. was bludgeoned in the head with a cinder block as he slept in a downtown alley. His son, Albert Kenneth Knight III, said his father was trying to turn his life around and hopes hopes the killer will be brought to justice.

‘I hope they find the person who did this.’ Suspect still at large in homeless man’s killing

It took almost two days for Albert Knight Jr.'s body to be discovered in a downtown Macon alley
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 10, 2024
Sister Theresa Sullivan, right, speaks during a ceremony May 20, 2024, marking the near-completion of Macon's Central City Apartments.

New Macon apartments to offer affordability and medical respite for the unhoused

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 22, 2024
Macon Housing Authority offices at 2015 Felton Avenue.

Macon Housing Authority plans first-ever development outside Georgia

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 13, 2024
A vacant home in Pleasant Hill exemplifies the persistent problem of blight in Macon neighborhoods.

How Heirs’ Property is Affecting Blight in Macon

Eliza Moore, Reg Murphy Center
April 18, 2024
1195 Lawton Avenue after repairs were made and violations were fixed by the owner.

From Blight to Not: A Success Story

Kc Wetherington
April 18, 2024
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