Carter Work Project at Langston Park • Atlanta, Georgia
Porch Paper
A Publication of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity
Issue 1
March 2026
Langston Park, Atlanta
From the Editor
Editor’s Note
From Atlanta Habitat
Welcome to the first issue of Porch Paper.
This publication was created to capture the heart of the Carter Work Project at Langston Park. Not just the homes being built, but the people, stories, and community behind them. As volunteers, partners, neighbors, and supporters come together for this historic effort, we wanted a space to share what makes this work matter.
At Atlanta Habitat, we believe homeownership is about more than four walls. It is about stability and opportunity, and the kind of foundation that can shape generations. That is exactly what is taking root at Langston Park.
In this first issue, you’ll meet Kyrié, one of the future homeowners whose joy, faith, and vision reflect the spirit of this community. Her story is a reminder that every nail, every wall, and every act of service is connected to something bigger: a future someone has been praying for.
Thank you for being part of this moment with us. We are proud to welcome you to Porch Paper and even prouder to help tell the stories that make Langston Park so special.
— Atlanta Habitat for Humanity
The Atlanta Habitat for Humanity team at 824 Memorial Drive SE.
Homeowner Spotlight
Building Kyrié’s Future
Before the keys are handed over, Kyrié is already imagining home.
Kyrié, future Langston Park homeowner and teacher.
She can picture the colors. She can picture the guest room that will double as an office. She can picture the quiet after a long day of teaching, when she finally walks through the door of a place that is fully her own. She has even named her future home: maybe Pooh’s Palace, maybe Kyrié’s Castle.
A future Langston Park homeowner and teacher, Kyrié says her Atlanta Habitat journey has been one of the least stressful parts of her life, something she credits to the support, structure, and sense of family she has found throughout the process. “Habitat isn’t just a program that you go through to get to an end result,” she said.
Kyrié
Homeownership is also part of a larger family legacy. Kyrié first learned about Atlanta Habitat years ago while watching her mother begin the process of buying a home. Seeing her mother save, plan, and prepare gave Kyrié an early example of what was possible. Now, she is walking that same path herself.
As a member of the Carter Work Project cohort, Kyrié says one of the most meaningful parts has been building community before move-in day ever arrives. Between classes, group chats, and regular visits to Langston Park, she already feels connected to the people who will soon become her neighbors.
“You already have this sense of community before community is a physical thing,” she said. “I already have this spot where I belong.”
Kyrié often drives by the site to watch the neighborhood take shape. What was once just a forest and concrete is now becoming real, frame by frame.
She speaks about her future home with excitement, faith, and intention. She hopes to write scriptures inside the walls, pray over the land, and create a peaceful place that reflects both who she is and the future she is building.
For Kyrié, this journey is about more than buying a house. It is about creating a foundation for what comes next.
Kyrié
And when volunteers arrive to help build during Carter Work Project, she already knows what she’ll be saying with a smile: “That one’s mine.”
Langston Park
By the Numbers
68
Total homes at Langston Park
24
Homes built during Carter Work Project week
17
Home buyers to date
300+
Volunteers signed up for Carter Work Project
Community
Atlanta Shows Up
Atlanta is a city that knows how to show up.
When volunteers, sponsors, churches, companies, organizations, and partners understand that they can help create real change, they lean in with everything they have. That spirit is part of what makes the Carter Work Project in Atlanta so powerful.
Atlanta is a group project, and homeownership is one of the clearest examples of what can happen when people come together with shared purpose. It takes time, partnership, and belief in something bigger than yourself. And when this city really gets that, it shows up in the biggest way.
Partners like The Home Depot Foundation, Delta Air Lines and Wells Fargo are some of our biggest champions and partners who truly understand this momentous occasion and what it means. They don’t just build business in this city, they help build the city.
What makes the Carter Work Project especially meaningful is how visible that impact becomes. In just one week, volunteers and partners can help raise walls, frame rooms, and move families closer to the dream of homeownership.
There are not many opportunities where you can give your time and see life-changing difference take shape so quickly. But this is one of them.
That is the beauty of Atlanta. When the city comes together, you can feel it. And at Langston Park, you will be able to see it too.
The Neighborhood
Langston Park: Serving More Families
As Atlanta grows, so does the need for affordable homeownership, and that reality is shaping how Atlanta Habitat builds.
At Langston Park, we are continuing an important shift: moving from building one house at a time on scattered lots to building larger communities that can serve more families at once.
It is a practical response to a very real challenge. Land is finite, especially in a fast-growing city like Atlanta. At the same time, the demand for affordable homeownership remains high. For Atlanta Habitat, that means thinking creatively about how to use land well, reach more families, and build in ways that are sustainable for the future.
By utilizing larger plots of land, Atlanta Habitat can create more homeownership opportunities in one place while also building something deeper than individual houses: community.
That approach has already proven successful. At Browns Mill Village, Atlanta Habitat showed what is possible when there is enough space to build with efficiency and scale in mind. By the time the community was completed, Browns Mill Village included 134 homes, a major milestone that helped shape what is now possible at Langston Park.
This work is about more than adding homes to Atlanta’s map. It is about building smarter, serving more families, and creating neighborhoods where connection and opportunity can grow side by side.
Langston Park reflects the future of Atlanta Habitat’s work: thoughtful, efficient, and rooted in the belief that when you build community, you can change more lives.
Watch: Why Carter Work Project 2026 is So Special
Legacy
Why Carter Work Project 2026 Is So Special
This year’s Carter Work Project comes at a remarkable time for Atlanta, Atlanta Habitat, and Habitat for Humanity International.
Thirty years ago, this city hosted the 1996 Olympics. Atlanta Habitat scaled to building 50 homes a year at the same time to match our rapidly growing city. Now, as Atlanta looks ahead to the FIFA World Cup, the organization is scaling once again.
But this season of growth is about more than house numbers. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of Habitat for Humanity International, a milestone that reminds us just how many lives have been changed through the vision of affordable homeownership.
It is also a moment to honor the lasting legacy of President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Though they are no longer with us, their example continues to inspire people around the world to put faith into action through service, humility, and love for neighbor.
That spirit is still very much alive here in Atlanta.
Atlanta Habitat is expanding the types of homes it builds, investing more deeply in aspiring homeowners, and focusing on building community instead of home by home on separate lots. 30 years, 50 homes each year became a staple for Atlanta Habitat. Now, our new normal will include 2-, 4- and 6-unit townhomes alongside single-family homes. Future phases will also introduce 2- and 3-story townhomes, expanding homeownership opportunities for more Atlanta families.
As Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were advocates of long-term affordable homeownership solutions, this year’s Carter Work Project is not only a historic build — it is a continuation of the example the Carters set for all of us.
That is what makes this year so special. It is a chance to honor a powerful legacy, celebrate 50 years of impact, and keep building toward the future with the same spirit that brought us here.
