For the first time since 1988, Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project is headed to Atlanta. The annual event is known as the “world’s largest building blitz,” with thousands of volunteers descending on a different city each year to construct dozens of homes.

An estimated 2,000 volunteers will head to the Sylvan Hills neighborhood on May 3-8 to build 24 homes in the Atlanta Habitat for Humanity Langston Park development.

It’s a landmark moment for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. In 1988, the Carters came to Atlanta to build 21 homes in the Edgewood neighborhood. Many of those homes still stand today, and residents like Sally Mae Hollis still call the properties home — or “Jimmy’s House.”

In the decades since President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter started the proj

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