How East Lake community is being impacted by TOUR Championship

Published: Aug 28, 2024 Duration: 00:02:10 Category: News & Politics

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The tournament brings fans from all over. But as Joe Ripley reports tonight, it's also brought a change to a community here in the East Lake neighborhood. Not all homes are created equal. That's where the game of golf comes in to drive home. The message of legacy, the purpose is to invest in a community that was once almost 30 years ago, completely ignored and a lot of disinvestment happened. Ilham Asia is the president and CEO of the East Lake Foundation. The nonprofit works a tour championship to create more affordable housing, educational health and economic opportunities. This is our first opportunity at home ownership. So our families who are renting here in East Lake, we want them to stay here. They want a chance at economic mobility. For long time, residents of the East Lake community, it comes down to preserving a legacy and leaving a legacy. It has more of an identity than it did before. Rick Baldwin is the president of the East Lake Community Association. He's seen change at the ground level from the newly renovated golf course next door to graduation rates at Drew charter school skyrocket. The city has done a nice job of working with those legacy residents to have their property taxes frozen because they're on fixed incomes. We are not East Lake if we don't continue to talk about the important work of those that came before us. Some of those who call East Lake home now feel as though they're trapped in the bunker. We know there's still work to do. We know that some of our families, you know, they, they, they see kind of the outcomes or the outputs of what's happening. They see these new developments and they're not quite sure how they fit in. And so our responsibilities to still reach out to families. So even those in the rough can benefit from the game of golf. Even if they're not playing it from the East Lake neighborhood in Atlanta, Joe Ripley. 11. A live news. Over the last decade, the tour championship has donated more than $54 million in proceeds to the Atlanta community. A lot of that money has sparked the construction of more than 850 affordable rental homes and 40 town homes. You can watch the tour championship this weekend right here on 11 Alive.

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