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Volume 44, Number 12
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
• THURSDAY, November 23, 2017
to grow
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
An abandoned, fore
closed development that’s
now a thriving community
of affordable housing is
looking to expand.
During the 2008 fore
closure crisis, an average of
120 homes a month were
being foreclosed on in
Forsyth County. Entire
developments were being
foreclosed on, too. This
included a development of
condos being built on the
comer of Bethania Station
Road and Shattalon Drive.
They sat there empty with
overgrown lawns. Some
were looted for their appli
ances. Some had broken
windows and were vandal
ized. Some had squatters.
“That’s what that
neighborhood looked like
back then, a little apocalyp
--
tic,” said Housing &
Community Development
Director Dan Komelis, dur
ing a recent presentation to
Forsyth County commis
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The Enclave, a development that offers affordable housing to low income
renters, is looking to expand with help from the city and county.
sioners. states money to help stabi- (NSP) grant from the N.C.
During the crisis, the lize neighborhoods. Commerce Department’s
U.S. Department of Forsyth County received a Community Division. The
Housing and Urban $2,625,000 Neighborhood county used the funds for
Development (HUD) gave Stabilization Program financial assistance to help
first time homeowners to
buy foreclosed homes. It
was also used it to acquire
the Trent Hill and Smith
Farm neighborhoods for
Habitat for Humanity to
build homes in.
Kornelis said the coun
ty was looking for other
opportunities to use the
funds when it was
approached by the bank
that foreclosed on the
condo development. The
county partnered With the
City of Winston-Salem to
help Miller Valentine and
the North Carolina
Housing Foundation
acquire the incomplete
development, which had 12
units with garages that
were originally sup
posedand other financing.
More units were added
to the 12-acre develop
See Enclave on A7
The Rev. Dr. James
Fulwood and First Lady
Hattie Fulwood feel the
church is supposed to
open its doors to the
community.
Photos by Timothy Ramsey
(Below)
St. Mark Missionary
Baptist Church has been
holding its Thanksgiving
dinner event for 20
years.
St. Mark opens its doors
on Thanksgiving Day
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONICLE
Today is Thanksgiving and while many people are sit
ting down and enjoying their meals, the people of St. Mark
Missionaiy Baptist Church, at 1100 Manley St., will be
feeding the community. Their annual Thanksgiving din
ner giveaway has been a staple of the church for two
decades.
The dinner is for the homeless, sick and shut-ins and
families who are not able to provide their own
Thanksgiving dinners. The dinner will run from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. The church will not only open its doors for walk
ins but will also deliver meals to those who cannot make
it out on their own.
See St. Mark on A7
Redistricting
master waiting
for reaction
to maps
BY CASH MICHAELS
' FOR THE CHRONICLE_
The special master appointed by a federal three-judge
panel several weeks ago to redraw redrawn legislative
maps submitted by the Republican-led N.C. General
Assembly in August has finished a first draft of his maps.
He is now( asking both plaintiffs and defendants in the
Covington v. State of North Carolina case to review
them, and offer their observations or criticisms now,
before the court s Dec. 1
deadline for completion.
The federal court
rejected the previous maps
because it has “serious
concerns” about at least
nine voting districts were
still legally problematic.
The court . appointed
Stanford University Law
Professor Nathaniel
Persily to first review the
redrawn maps, and if he
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racial gerrymandering or other unconstitutional features.
On Nov. 13, Persily issued his preliminary maps for
both House and Senate Districts.
According to Persily’s report accompanying the draft
maps, “.., the Court has ordered the Special Master to
redraw Enacted 2017 State Senate Districts 21 and 28
and State House Districts 21 and 57 in order to remedy
those districts’ violation of the Equal Protection Clause
of the Fourteenth Amendment. It has also ordered
redrawing of Enacted 2017 State House Districts 36,37,
40, 41, and 105 because the General Assembly, in
redrawing those districts in the 2017 Plan, may have vio
lated the- provision of the North Carolina State
Constitution prohibiting redistricting more than once a
decade.”
Of particular.concern to African-Americans on the
state Senate side was the manner in which the GOP has
redrawn Senate District 28 in Guilford County, currently
represented by state Sen. Gladys Robinson (D-Guilford).
In September, Sen. Robinson expressed frustration
that her district was unnecessarily drawn as a majority
See Maps on A7
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