Gwinnett County is down to 9% undeveloped land, and county planners say they will go straight to churches in 2027 about building affordable housing on land the churches don’t use.
Matt Elder, deputy director of Gwinnett County Planning and Development, said several churches reached out this year and those talks are still going.
“But we’ll be ongoing with that and really stepping it up in 2027 in terms of a more targeted approach to a number of different partners that have identified an interest in this,” Elder said…