“It will offer 285 units total and bring in mixed-income residents, which means some will be subsidized and some won’t. Chase Toler, a nearby resident said, ‘we’re excited to have neighbors that want to stay in the community and invest in the community.’ Toler owns a house on McDuffie Street that Columbia Housing helped build.

‘They’ve created this project and structured it in a way to promote quality housing over what you might traditionally consider to be affordable housing or public housing,’ asserted Toler. “This is going to be entirely different.'”