Charleston, South Carolina, is garnering praise for a bold new housing plan.
The city doesn’t just want thousands of new affordable homes; it’s also making developers choose from a catalog of preapproved designs to help deliver them faster.
What happened?
Interest in the proposal has been revived by a Reddit thread about Charleston’s “Project 3500.”
The plan calls for 3,500 affordable units and another 3,500 market-rate units over the next six years, along with the replacement of older housing while keeping existing residents in place…