Affordable Housing Project

NeighborWorks Columbus has a demonstrably strong and highly productive working relationship with the Land Bank Authority of Columbus, Georgia. By working together, these two local entities continue to accomplish much more across Muscogee County with greatly amplified successes for all, which in turn benefits the entirety of our consolidated city and county. 

As a non-profit, NeighborWorks Columbus strives to promote and provide access to fit and affordable housing and build assets for financial independence for all citizens of low to moderate income. As a public authority, the Land Bank Authority of Columbus returns vacant, abandoned, tax-delinquent, and deteriorated properties to productive use by acquiring them, eliminating the liabilities, and transferring the properties to responsible owners in alignment with community goals and priorities.  

The specific subject of this document is single family housing unit within the Hunter Ridge Subdivision of Columbus, Georgia (Muscogee County). This particular new construction home, located at 6130 Hunter Ridge Circle, was made possible by a NeighborWorks Columbus partnership with Land Bank Authority of Columbus. Further contributing to the development of this new home was a Community HOME Investment Program (CHIP) matching grant made by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs to NeighborWorks Columbus. 

Within the Hunter Ridge Subdivision, this drastically modern and highly efficient new home is by far the most recent construction in the immediate neighborhood. This new home at 6130 Hunter Ridge Circle already is successfully owner-occupied, and the new home stands where previously nothing more than an overgrown lot existed. Just as with any successful transformation, partnerships and cooperation across organizational lines are key. The new home on Hunter Ridge Circle is an excellent example of such a partnership spanning private, local, state, and federal resources. 

This project on Hunter Ridge Circle began by a transfer of ownership for the property from The Land Bank Authority of Columbus to CHI Asset Management (dba: NeighborWorks Columbus). This transfer of ownership, which was a first step to the project, took place on August 26, 2022. Then, on May 24, 2023, a NeighborWorks Columbus contract was awarded and signed to allow the initiation of construction. In slightly more than 6 months, construction concluded on December 07, 2023, with a City of Columbus Department of Inspections and Code Enforcement Certificate of Occupancy being issued. The new home was listed for sale shortly thereafter, and then on March 13, 2024, a real estate closing occurred resulting in the home being sold to its new owner.   

Not only does the City of Columbus and the Hunter Ridge Subdivision benefit from the completion and sale of this new home, but the sale of the home was especially significant to its buyer. The purchaser of the new home at 6130 Hunter Ridge is a first-time homebuyer, whose annual household income is less than 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) for Muscogee County. This homebuyer demonstrated their discipline by completing homebuyer education and counseling, plus by being prepared financially to purchase the home, and most importantly, to sustain their long-term ownership of the home for years to come.  

NeighborWorks Columbus thanks all of the partners, including the Land Bank Authority of Columbus, without whom, this newly constructed 3-bedroom and 2-bathroom home and its new homeowner would have never been united. With each home newly constructed and occupied by a well-deserving and responsibly-qualified citizen of Columbus, the quality of life for each of us improves as positive externalities are realized. The photographs on the following pages illustrate the new home’s exterior and interior.  

Vantage Point: Street Front View
Year Built 2023 | Square Feet: 1,171

6130 Hunter Ridge Circle, Columbus, Georgia 31907 (parcel ID # 014 001 083)

Vantage Point: Kitchen Interior View
Year Built 2023 | Square Feet: 1,171