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Charleston leaders unveil design‑week plan aiming for 5,000 homes, pledge no displacement
Summary
City leaders and visiting designers presented a work‑in‑progress plan after a weeklong studio to add roughly 5,000 housing units—about half permanently affordable—on the Charleston peninsula and adjacent areas, emphasizing a 'build‑first' approach that officials say will avoid displacing current housing‑authority residents.
Charleston officials and visiting designers on Friday unveiled a work‑in‑progress plan that aims to add roughly 5,000 housing units across the peninsula and nearby areas, and the mayor and presenters repeatedly pledged that there will be no displacement of existing residents on housing authority properties.
The mayor opened the public session by framing affordability as one of the city’s top three challenges alongside traffic and flooding and outlined four guiding principles for the effort: no displacement of current residents on housing authority properties; insistence on attractive, context‑sensitive design; reducing risk so capital costs fall; and capturing economies of scale by building at much larger volumes. “There will be no displacement of existing residents on housing authority properties,” the mayor said, stressing that replacement units would be available before any household moved.
Christian, a lead presenter from the visiting design team, called the session…
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