Bill Stanfield News Today

The Lowcountry Rapid Transit project is taking its next big step.

In North Charlestons south end, ten affordable homes provide a place to live for low-income residents due to a partnership with Metanoia, various organizations.

North Charlestons Chicora-Cherokee, Accabee and Union Heights neighborhoods object to a Charleston County plan to have a prime park site include manufacturing.

A proposed agreement is leaving North Charleston residents high and dry, according to city and community leaders.

Low-income housing requires complex public, private funding, called financing lasagna by some, and it can take longer than the time needed to build the housing.

North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey retires after leading the states third-largest city for nearly 30 years, but plans to keep busy with new consulting business.

The north end of the former Charleston Naval Base is poised to become the citys new urban center, with businesses, entertainment and thousands of new residences.

In south end neighborhoods, landlords own up to 80 percent of the houses.

After a devastating fire destroyed a section of the former Chicora Elementary School on a cold February night in 2020, the historic building sat untouched for over three years as

Golden Dream Townhomes, an eight-unit apartment building on Lester Street that provides affordable housing opportunities, is a community-driven partnership between Metanoia and the Lecque family, an original Liberty Hill founding