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House Next Door

A blighted residence on Pio Nono Avenue that has been taken over by the vegetation in the front yard, becoming obscured behind the greenery.

Readers weigh in on blight series

Staff Reports
September 29, 2014
This Beall's Hill sign stands across the street from the plot of land on Oglethorpe Street that will house new duplexes in Beall's Hill.

Local government has various blight arrows in its arsenal

The House Next Door: Part 9
Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
September 29, 2014
Harold Tessendorf, executive director of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity, talks about the its "Blight Out of Sight" campaign. The organization has identified 118 homes in Lynmore Estates that they considered blighted. Photo from 2014.

Habitat working to transform Lynmore Estates

The House Next Door: Part 8
Adam Ragusea, Center for Collaborative Journalism
September 28, 2014
Craig Byron and wife, Ellen, and their daughters, Julia, 7, and Grace, 10, in front of the family's renovated home on Ash Street. The family is shown here in a 2014 photo.

Beall’s Hill project a turnaround in progress

The House Next Door: Part 7
Phillip Ramati, The Telegraph
September 27, 2014
Bartlett Crossing sits on the site of the old Macon Homes housing project in this 2014 photo.

Troubled Macon Homes reborn as Bartlett Crossing

The House Next Door: Part 6
Phillip Ramati, The Telegraph
September 26, 2014
Genester Marshall has gone to Municipal Court to try and hold the owner responsible for this blighted Knightsbridge Road home. Marshall outside the home in August 2014.

Housing court reveals human woes behind neglected homes

The House Next Door Part 5
Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
September 25, 2014
Macon-Bibb County Code Inspector Kim Nerger checks a house from a long list of addresses with code violations while driving the streets on Macon in 2014.

‘It gets aggravating, it gets depressing’ Code inspectors’ notices, citations often have no visible effect

The House Next Door Part 5
Jim Gaines, The Telegraph
September 25, 2014
The Five by Five neighborhood program targeted areas like this one along Ridge Avenue in 2014.

Residents say Five by Five cleanups have brief, uncertain impact

The House Next Door Part 5
Jim Gaines, The Telegraph
September 25, 2014
Hartley Street, once a bustling middle class neighborhood in south Macon--quickly thrown together to provide housing for Warner Robins base workers--is nothing like the fast-paced days following World War II.

‘We got the hell out’: One south Macon street went down the tubes. Or did it?

The House Next Door: Part 4
Joe Kovac, The Telegraph
September 24, 2014
Hartley Street, once a bustling middle class neighborhood in south Macon--quickly thrown together to provide housing for Warner Robins base workers--is nothing like the fast-paced days following World War II.

Older problems get older

The House Next Door: Part 3
Jim Gaines, The Telegraph
September 23, 2014
Adam Ragusea conducts a meeting attended by a broad swath of Maconites at the Centenary United Methodist Church in historic Beall's Hill where the discussion centered on blight and how to deal with it. File art from 2014.

Locals weigh in on ‘What is blight?’

The House Next Door: Part 2
Adam Ragusea, Center for Collaborative Journalism
September 22, 2014
This archival photo shows a home at 3341 Kings Park Circle in Kings Park that was abandoned and vandalized for about a year according to the lady that lived next door.

Expert: Blight has no clear definition

The House Next Door: Part 1
Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
September 21, 2014
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