Biggers House. Photo: ZAMI NOBLA.
The Biggers House for Black Lesbian Elders stands in Atlanta's West Lake neighborhood, in the childhood home of Dr. Edith Biggers, an Atlanta physician. It is run by ZAMI NOBLA, the National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, and the organization states the house's purpose on its own page: a permanent, safe, and affordable home for two to three Black lesbian elders over the age of 60 who live on fixed incomes. GO Magazine reported in 2022 that the organization had acquired a 35 year lease on the residence, describing the housing as affordable and accessible.
The house opened to its first resident in December 2021. The organization's page lists the work that made that possible, carried out from 2018 onward: repainting inside and out, a new driveway and an entrance ramp, 14 new windows, new flooring, updated electrical and plumbing systems, a new furnace and water heater, outdoor fencing, and eight raised garden beds. Founder and Executive Director Mary Anne Adams led the transformation, and the page credits hundreds of community members, foundations, volunteers, and students with contributing to it.
Accessibility work is the most recent completed phase the page documents. In 2024, with support from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, ZAMI NOBLA renovated the bathroom and dining rooms for better accessibility. The page then dates a further build to 2025: a second accessible bathroom, a hallway, and a closet. A video on the organization's YouTube channel gives that work a phase number, calling it Phase Three, and shows a concrete foundation poured for the expansion. While the renovations run, the organization says, the house is in use as a meeting and community gathering space.
The next stage exists only as plans. On its page, the organization says new residents would be added in early 2026 and that it would then begin developing an intentional community of three tiny homes in the backyard. Its GiveOUT Day fundraising appeal asks supporters to give to a Tiny Houses Campaign for the same homes, described as planned. On October 15, 2026, the organization's page still described those move-ins and tiny homes as plans, not completed work.
Carolyn Satchell
October 15, 2026
