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columbia / housing projects
Saturday, July 16th, 2011 12:32 amI had come to expect that Google Maps' street-view was available for everywhere in Columbia. But I was surprised today to notice that there are quite a few streets where it is not yet available.
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This website: http://www.city-data.com/city/Columbia-South-Carolina.html
has a whole bunch of statistics about Columbia, and presumably other U.S. cities too.
The "Neighborhoods" section links to pages with statistics for individual neighborhoods within the city. It also has a map which shows the boundaries of the neighborhoods. The map also shows the city boundary/city limits, which isn't obvious on most other maps.
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I was curious about a housing area that can be seen while driving along I277 through town. It has a lot of identical looking houses/buildings spread out over a significantly large area. I thought that it must be some kind of housing project.
While driving by there, I often wonder about the people who live there, and how they ended up there. I don't know much about public housing, and how people qualify for it, other than obviously that they are poor and/or have special needs.
So I found the Columbia Housing Authority (CHA) website, which has this interesting page about the history of housing projects in the city. The site lists the areas in the city with public housing projects. 2 of the older projects, I recognized. But many of them, I wouldn't have recognized as public housing - some look like regular apartment complexes, and some are small but nice-looking houses.
The area I was curious about isn't a part of the CHA. It is listed on a page of non-CHA subsidized housing.. which seems to be federally based rather than city-based.
There are a lot more subsidized low-income housing areas around here than I was aware of.
.
This website: http://www.city-data.com/city/Columbia-South-Carolina.html
has a whole bunch of statistics about Columbia, and presumably other U.S. cities too.
The "Neighborhoods" section links to pages with statistics for individual neighborhoods within the city. It also has a map which shows the boundaries of the neighborhoods. The map also shows the city boundary/city limits, which isn't obvious on most other maps.
.
I was curious about a housing area that can be seen while driving along I277 through town. It has a lot of identical looking houses/buildings spread out over a significantly large area. I thought that it must be some kind of housing project.
While driving by there, I often wonder about the people who live there, and how they ended up there. I don't know much about public housing, and how people qualify for it, other than obviously that they are poor and/or have special needs.
So I found the Columbia Housing Authority (CHA) website, which has this interesting page about the history of housing projects in the city. The site lists the areas in the city with public housing projects. 2 of the older projects, I recognized. But many of them, I wouldn't have recognized as public housing - some look like regular apartment complexes, and some are small but nice-looking houses.
The area I was curious about isn't a part of the CHA. It is listed on a page of non-CHA subsidized housing.. which seems to be federally based rather than city-based.
There are a lot more subsidized low-income housing areas around here than I was aware of.
