As Birmingham Turns Blight into Affordable Housing, Residents Return
Industry Update
June 15, 2022
Source: birminghamtimes.com
On a humid Friday morning in early June, a little girl plays on the front steps of a newly constructed house in Birmingham’s Belview Heights neighborhood. Her grandparents, Augustus Payne, a retired furniture salesman, and Sharron Payne, a retired teacher’s aide, sip coffee and watch from the porch that sits on land where the former Camellia Terrace apartments were located.
The apartments, where the Paynes lived for 20 years until they were demolished in the early 2000s, have been replaced by the newly developed Oak Hill development of Belview Heights in Ensley, which now features 27 brand new homes on what were formerly vacant lots in the neighborhood.
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