Kay was in today's Anniston Star due to her work with the West Anniston Community Development Corporation, a local non-profit that promotes affordable housing, economic development and youth leadership.
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The West Anniston Community Development Corp. showcased its first renovated home on Walnut Avenue Tuesday morning.
Photos of the home before work began show a house with damaged walls and floors and in need of new kitchen and bathroom fixtures, as well as a good scrubbing. Now, the house at 2001 Walnut Ave. has been transformed, with a new roof, siding and a completely re-done interior.
Baron Sandlin, executive director of the WACDC, said the house was repaired with $25,000 from the Wachovia Foundation and Community Development Block Grant funds.
"Other people on the block have cleaned up their properties, but this house was abandoned," he said. "We thought it was a good place to start."
He said the home was formerly a duplex, but with two bedrooms and two bathrooms would now house a single family. The home will be rented for $475 a month, he said. Sandlin said money from the rental will go toward renovating other west Anniston properties.
The WACDC will also renovate two other nearby homes, he said.
Anniston Mayor and WACDC board member Chip Howell told the crowd gathered to view the home that the renovation was a step toward eradicating sub-standard housing in the city.
"The City Council has taken steps to eliminate housing, but this is the other side of that," he said.
Anniston City Councilman Herbert Palmore said he was proud to see the home completed.
"I saw this as a dream, but now I'm waking up to the reality," he said.
The WACDC is a nonprofit foundation organized to provide affordable housing, economic development and youth leadership to residents of west Anniston.
Kay McKinney, board president of West Anniston Community Development Corp., presents a house that was renovated by her organization. Photo: Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star
The article is below:
The West Anniston Community Development Corp. showcased its first renovated home on Walnut Avenue Tuesday morning.
Photos of the home before work began show a house with damaged walls and floors and in need of new kitchen and bathroom fixtures, as well as a good scrubbing. Now, the house at 2001 Walnut Ave. has been transformed, with a new roof, siding and a completely re-done interior.
Baron Sandlin, executive director of the WACDC, said the house was repaired with $25,000 from the Wachovia Foundation and Community Development Block Grant funds.
"Other people on the block have cleaned up their properties, but this house was abandoned," he said. "We thought it was a good place to start."
He said the home was formerly a duplex, but with two bedrooms and two bathrooms would now house a single family. The home will be rented for $475 a month, he said. Sandlin said money from the rental will go toward renovating other west Anniston properties.
The WACDC will also renovate two other nearby homes, he said.
Anniston Mayor and WACDC board member Chip Howell told the crowd gathered to view the home that the renovation was a step toward eradicating sub-standard housing in the city.
"The City Council has taken steps to eliminate housing, but this is the other side of that," he said.
Anniston City Councilman Herbert Palmore said he was proud to see the home completed.
"I saw this as a dream, but now I'm waking up to the reality," he said.
The WACDC is a nonprofit foundation organized to provide affordable housing, economic development and youth leadership to residents of west Anniston.
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