Charleston Housing Authority reconstructing and redeveloping public housing units
January 4, 2024
CHARLESTON S.C. (WCBD) – Affordable housing units in Charleston could be seeing significant improvements in the buildings and surrounding neighborhoods.
Housing Authority gives update on plan to redevelop, renovate all public housing
December 28, 2023
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Charleston Housing Authority is making progress on its plan to redevelop or renovate all 1,407 of its public housing units.
Plan to redevelop Charleston public housing would put 1,100 new apartments on peninsula
December 20, 2023
In 2024, a huge new venture could begin reshaping Charleston’s upper peninsula by replacing 286 public housing units built in the 1930s with a multi-block 1,116-apartment redevelopment for people of all incomes.
January 12, 2022
After reading the Jan. 4 editorial, “As one housing innovator retires, Charleston must keep innovating,” I want to provide additional information on the transition in leadership at the Charleston Housing Authority.
Excerpt from the Fall 2021 edition of Affordable Housing News
December 22, 2021
Editorial: Charleston County’s land plan could boost affordable housing — or set it back
December 7, 2021
There’s no question our area needs more affordable housing, particularly in downtown Charleston, one of our region’s major employment centers and one of the easiest places to get by without the added expense of owning a car.
Commentary: Designate land at 995 Morrison for affordable housing before it’s too late
December 2, 2021
Gentrification has driven African Americans out of their neighborhoods, and there is an urgent, if not dire, need for affordable and workforce housing, yet a recent editorial on 995 Morrison Drive urged Charleston County Council to move slowly on designating the property for exactly that purpose.
Charleston Housing Authority offers county $1M for an acre of land on peninsula
December 1, 2021
The city of Charleston’s housing authority is offering $1 million for an acre of county-owned land on the upper peninsula where it hopes to build affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.
Rules relaxed as more than a quarter-billion dollars in SC rent relief sits unclaimed
August 18, 2021
In South Carolina and across the nation, efforts to put billions of dollars in rent relief into the hands of landlords to keep tenants from being evicted have been moving at a snail’s pace.
HOUSING AUTHORITY CEO DON CAMERON TO RETIRE
August 4, 2021
CHARLESTON, S.C. (August 4, 2021) – The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston is announcing the retirement of President & Chief Executive Officer Donald Cameron. Cameron joined the Authority in 1975 and was promoted to CEO in 1980. Cameron will retire in December 2021 and serve in an advisory capacity through 2022.
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