*Tyler Perry is helping low-income seniors stay in their homes amid a rise in property taxes due to his movie studio in Atlanta.
The elders in the area are “seeing their property taxes jump, and he’s ponying up the difference so they can stay in their homes,” TMZ writes, adding that Perry is “donating $750,000 this year so Atlanta’s low-income seniors aren’t forced out of their homes due to rising property taxes.”
Many longtime residents living on a fixed income have reportedly been displaced since Perry launched his full-service production studio in 2019. The movie mogul has reached out to Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens to help keep these people in their homes, according to TMZ.
His donation will reportedly pay off all back property taxes for nearly 300 homes.
READ MORE: Tyler Perry Offers to Buy FDA Lab to Keep a Toxic ‘Smokestack’ Out of Black Atlanta Neighborhood
Perry’s latest act of generosity follows reports that he wants to buy the Forces Command building at Fort Mac after learning its FDA laboratory would emit toxic fumes into the atmosphere in a predominantly Black Atlanta neighborhood.
Per TMZ, “The building was reportedly approved to be sold to Easterly Government Properties in 2019 for $17M — and the current plan is to lease to the FDA, which would have it up and running by 2025,” the outlet writes.
Tyler offered to buy it for $17 million, but the feds sold it to Easterly.
Perry told Saporta, “To allow someone to put a laboratory in the heart of this development with smokestacks is not okay with me. They would not do it in Buckhead, so why would they do it here? It feels like environmental racism.”
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