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The third of four parts
Sandra Smith has a name for the towering new homes squeezed onto tiny lots in Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods: “Slim-talls.”
She pointed out one after another on a recent tour through her home neighborhood of Southside. They can be seen in Shiloh and Burton Street, where a row of gray-and-white slim-talls flank a stretch of its namesake main road. And Hazzard Street in East End leads to a mazelike corner of the neighborhood dominated by blue, red and even purple multi-story homes with slanted roofs…