Fifty miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in a small town with a hardware store, cemetery and red-brick church, a high-end housing development — with 1,300 single-family homes, pickleball courts, and two lakes — is attracting significant interest from Chinese investors.
The flood of money into Hoschton is due to a wrinkle in a new law passed last year reforming the EB-5 program, an immigration-by-investment scheme run by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The new rules allow foreig
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