Blight can be seen throughout Macon-Bibb County, where nearly 4,000 properties are vacant or abandoned.

Blight can be seen throughout Macon-Bibb County, where nearly 4,000 properties are vacant or abandoned. / The Telegraph

Drive through almost any neighborhood in Macon-Bibb County and you're apt to spot some houses with crumbling facades, shuttered windows and overgrown lawns. They're among the county's nearly 4,000 unoccupied properties. Most of them are only in poor or fair condition, but more than 400 are in such bad shape they need to be demolished.

Samantha Max just wrapped a series and a podcast on blight for The Telegraph, where she covers health. She joined On Second Thought from Macon to explain the roots of the problem and what residents and local leaders are doing to fix it.

On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Samantha Max.

 

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