Through Kandiss Edwards
July 3, 2025
The cottages of the Union Park offer a community that helps residents of Atlanta to stay at affordable prices in the metro area.
A development company in Atlanta feeds its second small home community, Union Park Cottages.
The development helps to tackle the inequality crisis for home that has become Atlanta in the city of Atlanta, 11 alive reported.
Techie Homes, the development responsible for the small home communities, is the property of developer Booker T. Washington. The newest community in Union City, Georgia, starts to sell out.
The average house price in Metro Atlanta is $ 400,000, which is inaccessible for many. Techie Homes provides property of $ 200,000, making a house more affordable for the average buyer.
“You have to have a mix of communities that adapt to people in different income levels, because they have to experience the life and examples of all species so that they can grow in balance,” said Washington.
The house of Union Park Cottage is for all demography. Everyone from a young adult to a pensioner can find a suitable accommodation. The houses are built to be sustainable and offer all basic facilities, Including a full kitchen, living room, bathroom and bedroom. Units are around 750 ft. Outdoor materials include fiber cement cladding and solar panels.
The neighborhood offers a community technical laboratory. Moreover, every owner of each house has a 15% interest in the community in the community. Washington believes that the technical laboratory represents a new step towards tackling the literacy crisis that occurs in communities in the US.
“The alphabetising percentage is falling,” Washington told 11 alive. “So in this community I just wanted to offer an access point for people to elevate their skills because we could teach entrepreneurship and other classes in the computer lab.
As a resident of Atlanta, Washington wants to offer others opportunities to invest in the communities they have lived in their entire lives.
“I grew up in this part of the city,” said Washington. “I was that child who stood by bike, walked on the sidewalk. I lived in the apartment after the apartment …
Techie Homes has sold all the cottages of Union Park, but hopes to break a different development in the future.
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