Project 3500 Affordable Housing Charrette Work-In-Progress Presentation

Charleston City · March 25, 2026

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Opening remarks and policy goals

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The mayor opened the session, framed housing affordability as one of three top city problems (alongside traffic and flooding) and urged an aggressive, different approach. He gave four guiding principles: (1) no displacement of existing residents on housing authority properties; (2) insist on high‑quality design and aesthetics; (3) reduce project and market risk to lower developer costs; and (4) pursue economies of scale by building at much larger scale (discussing a target of roughly 5,000 units with about half permanently restricted to affordability). He said the city is working with HUD and,

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The mayor and visiting designers wrapped a weeklong design studio proposing a phased, build‑first program to add roughly 5,000 housing units on the Charleston peninsula and nearby areas, with a pledge of no displacement of existing housing authority residents.

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