Pedaling Across the Country for Affordable Homes
Hundreds of college-aged students are biking cross-country this summer for Bike and Build, a nonprofit dedicated to raising money for affordable housing.
To most people, raising $4,500 in order to bike almost 4,200 cross country for three months sounds completely insane. But for hundreds of college-aged students, that's exactly what each one did. The young adults are part of an organization called Bike and Build, a nonprofit that benefits affordable housing in a very unconventional way. For the past nine years, Bike and Build has been sending out groups of 30 or more to ride 70 to 100-plus miles a day for the cause. And on their off days when they're not biking, they're getting on their hands and knees to fix homes. This year, Bike and Build has eight different routes with eight different groups, and one of the routes made a pit stop in Norcross this week after clocking in 481 miles. The …
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