• Boehm Realty renovated and sold ten houses.
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• YW Homes and Neighborhood Housing Services counseled neighborhood residents on home ownership issues.
• Outreach Incorporated has renovated five owner occupied houses.

• Birmingham Affordable Housing Community has built a new rental unit, and rehabbed two additional units all next to each other on Second Court North.
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• RPC, UAB, Auburn Urban Design and Jefferson County Information Services collaborated on an inventory of housing, neighborhood perceptions, social conditions and social capital in this inner city community. These data were used to build this web site.
• Auburn Urban Design Center organized neighborhood input to help create a Community Master Plan.
• Birmingham Southern College Environmental Center has built an EcoScape - a community garden that provides vegetables for a local soup kitchen and also community residents. (photos below)

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After

• Student volunteers and visitors from AmeriCorps have planted dozens of trees and helped to keep the neighborhood clean.