When Yvonne Cole Boone bought her home in the City of South Fulton in 2018, she envisioned a peaceful retirement surrounded by family and friends, spending her days planting new flowers and fruit in her front-yard garden.
Her house, nestled in an expansive residential community called Oakley Township, is in a neighborhood Boone says her family naturally fits in.
“The neighbors are friendly here in Oakley, and I felt a certain connection because I hadn’t lived in a predominantly Black community since I was a very young person, and it felt like we had a sense of community and a sense of connection,” Boone told Capital B Atlanta…