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Sight for sore eyes in downtown neighborhoods with dilapidated buildings
Through a grant from the Lowcountry Housing Trust, the City of Charleston is renovating two downtown residential properties.
The Digitel Beaufort: Three years of improvements coming to Boundary Street
Boundary Street has long been a target of city leaders that envision it transforming from a busy, pedestrian unfriendly four-lane highway into a shopping and dinning atraction. And now the antey has been upped for the "Boundary Street Redevelopment" with hopes of improving traffic flow and boosting business.
The Post and Courier: Executive Items
Patrick King has been promoted to assistant director at Lowcountry Housing Trust.
Charleston Regional Business Journal: Lowcountry Housing Trust receives $500,000 award
The Lowcountry Housing Trust has received a $500,000 award to serve local low-income neighborhoods that are not near affordable and healthy food retailers.
Path.com: Trust Receives Award to Combat Food Deserts
Lowcountry Housing Trust is one of a dozen organizations nationwide to receive funding through the federal Community Development Financial Institutions Fund program for healthy food financing projects.
The Digitel: Lowcountry Housing Trust receives award to combat “food deserts”
Lowcountry Housing Trust is one of a dozen organizations nationwide to receive funding through the federal Community Development Financial Institutions Fund program for healthy food financing projects.
The Post and Courier: Urban food deserts: Lack of large grocers a major inconvenience
April Jones whizzed through the aisles at the Save-A-Lot on Durant Avenue, filling her cart with groceries. The North Charleston resident said she was stocking up on food one day late last week, taking full of advantage of the ride home she would get from her cousin.
The Beaufort Gazette: Beaufort, Port Royal affordable housing venture advances
The city of Beaufort and town of Port Royal are two votes away from a partnership with a nonprofit group that promises to help create affordable housing.
The Beaufort Gazette: Continued criticism not good leadership
Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling responds to an editorial about affordable housing in the area.
The Beaufort Gazette: Program a short-term fix for a long-term problem
The Beaufort Gazette editorializes on affordable housing in Beaufort, arguing, "Beaufort doesn't have an affordable-housing problem; it has some residents who cannot afford to own or maintain a home at a certain level. These are different problems."