Mobile Breaks Ground On Home In Campground Neighborhood

Members of the City of Mobile’s Neighborhood Development Department joined Councilman William Carroll on June 25 to celebrate the start of a transformational project in the Campground neighborhood, with the groundbreaking of the first single-family home being built through the city’s Housing Improvement Program (HIP). The department worked closely with Carroll over the past year to get the program off the ground, and Mayor Sandy Stimpson said Carroll committed a significant amount of his discretionary funding toward this effort. Over the next three years, the HIP is to build 35 new homes in the Campground like the one that broke ground on Congress Street last week. The site of this first HIP-funded home was a blighted property acquired through the city’s land bank. Once it’s constructed by Heritage Homes, it will be purchased by a participant in the city’s Homeownership Provides Equity program.