Contributed by Lauren Taylor
Atlanta rapper T.I. and his wife Tiny shared their new development project via Instagram. The ‘Whatever You Like’ rapper is adding this project to others in his repertoire, in 2017 he founded Buy Back the Block, a real estate venture that will reinvent his old neighborhood one building at a time. T.I. posted a video showing the land for his affordable housing development and the progress being made. In which, he states they are about 40% done and they should be done by sometime next year. This development of affordable housing is in Bankhead Atlanta, the neighborhood where T.I. grew up.
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In the video, when referring to his new development T.I. says, “This right here used to be the old K-Mart, Giant Foord, and now we have affordable housing. 143 units going up. Big huge community ya dig?” It was also said that there is to be a community center, greenhouse, and garden in this new affordable housing project. The rapper mentions his excitement for the project, “This is our first project as developers [and] we’re proud of it.”
Tiny also posted the property on her story with the caption, “God just keeps blessing us to bless others. @Troubleman31 U da Man!! I love to say our big project is coming along.”
The couple faced criminal allegations earlier this year as 17 of 30 women came forward to press charges against the two. Per their lawyer, the victims have accused them of varying degrees of sexual abuse, drugging, and harassment. According to prosecutors, they did not face charges due to the expired statute of limitations on the incident in question which occurred in 2005.