NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Longtime Young Terrace and Calvert Square residents and community partners say a lot has changed since the two St. Paul’s area public housing communities were built nearly 70 years ago.
“When the people moved there, it was nice, it was clean and it had more amenities than most of the houses had here,” said Barbara Rice. “[But] a lot of people seemed to have lost their ways.”
Residents are looking for a transformation of the Young Terrace and Calvert Square communities which have been plagued by gun violence, the latest coming with a pair of shootings in a span of days that claimed a pair of lives…