The Charleston, SC, author of an opinion piece on the need for imaginative housing solutions waxes nostalgic about his upbringing in a neighbourhood of purpose-built affordable housing.
In the midst of a survey on affordable housing options (and the lack of them) in the Charleston area, he describes the circumstances which caused his childhood community to be built in support of the U.S. effort during World War II.
Today, we live in an era when Fortress America is at war with drugs, terrorism, immigrants, political extremists left and right, political moderates of the ‘other’ party, former allies, NATO, and on and on. Could ‘wartime’ conditions today mobilize the construction necessary to solve a humanitarian shelter crisis affecting all Americans?
Apparently, such radical ‘wartime’ intervention doesn’t appear to be a creative solution. Nostalgic on one hand, the author simply dismisses it with the other.
Find out why Charleston successfully built much-needed affordable housing in the early 1940’s and puzzle why such a solution is backhanded off the table today. Read more in The Post and Courier: Combine creative steps to address affordable housing problem
