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The Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission changed zoning in 4900 block of Bloomfield Road to allow for three-bedroom units at Bloomfield Town Homes.

Macon-Bibb P&Z selects firm for housing study

Planning & Zoning compromises with homeowners over historic renovations
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
March 11, 2025
The Buck Melton Community Center is now under the ownership of the Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia.

Macon community center sold to a nonprofit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 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
Ulysses Colbert’s house at 2269 Anthony Terrace in Macon on March 14, 2024. Colbert had rented out this house, but after losing out on thousands of dollars in rent, and now having to go clean up the mess left by the previous tenant, is reconsidering being a landlord.

“I might just let it sit vacant:” How Code Enforcement impacts property owners in Macon-Bibb

Henry Keating, Reg Murphy Center
April 18, 2024
United Way of Central Georgia's "United to End Homelessness" initiative director Jake Hall gives census volunteer Heather Sims a hand as she wends her way through a new to the census takers homeless encampment in Macon.

Middle Georgia homeless coalitions seek partners for new federal program

Macon, Warner Robins are the only Georgia metro areas without a Continuum of Care
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 27, 2024
The future "High Note" Fixed Base Operation at Middle Georgia Regional Airport will be the only FBO in the world shaped like a guitar, visible from the air, Mayor Lester Miller said.

2024 Preview – Part 3: Guitar-shaped airport, new plan to attract business, pedestrian safety challenges and the fate of state charter schools

The Macon Newsroom compiled 20 things to look for in 2024 in a 4-part series that will be published between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow and Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 2, 2024
Standing on a trolley loaded with representatives from land banks across Georgia, River Edge Behavioral Health CEO Cass Hatcher points to the construction site where a tiny homes development for unhoused individuals who have mental health challenges is being built. The tour of housing developments in Macon on Wednesday was part of the annual Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit.

Georgia aims to grow workforce housing amid statewide housing shortage

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 8, 2023
Allen Camp after his interview at the Daybreak Center on April 20, 2023. Allen is disabled and was unhoused for six months but is now getting into an apartment and paying expenses by working part-time and using his SSDI payments.

Who is Housing Insecure in Macon?

Olivia Scott and Cole Brockman
May 5, 2023
The old parking deck adjacent to the Dempsey Apartments is being put up for sale by the Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority for future residential or office lofts or condominiums.

Tenant protection bill before Georgia Senate must do more to curb predatory landlords, advocates say

By Sean Keenan, Atlanta Civic Circle
March 22, 2023
The Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia is among several nonprofits headquartered in the Buck Melton Community Center at Anthony Road and Felton Avenue.

Macon Housing wants to sell community center

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism
March 13, 2023
Diane Collins, left, her mother Bernice Smith, center and their friend Tony Fordham, on the porch of Collins' Davis Place apartment.

‘We can’t build fast enough.’ Macon Housing Authority is funding, upgrading affordable housing

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 22, 2023
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