Combine creative steps to address affordable housing problem
It’s a public policy issue churning in the abstract: Just what does “affordable housing” mean for regional Charleston?
Is this a market-based inventory issue? A strategic economic issue? A social and demographic trend line?
The history is instructive. The ironies are compelling.
Today, the focus is on hard-working folks who sustain industry sectors like tourism, and who provide fundamental public services, such as police officers, firefighters and emergency responders. Pay levels for jobs they love just don’t cover the spiraling costs of housing. These men and women protect us and help sustain the economy. We need them. They need attainable housing.
