JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) — Johns Island is one step closer to welcoming one of its largest affordable housing efforts in years, a project designed to give local families a real path to homeownership.
Currently, the property is marked with Keep Out signs, but that’s expected to change soon. The site could become the entrance to a new neighborhood with roughly 50 affordable homes, covering about 30 acres of land on Back Pen Road and Jimmy Mitchell Lane.
The development is being led by Sea Island Habitat for Humanity. Once Charleston County gives approval, the nonprofit says construction could begin as early as this summer, with the first nine homes on track to be finished by December 2026…