The Promise: Public Housing Residents Brace For Change, But Are The Bureaucrats Listening?
“As the city prepares to turn its largest public housing projects into a mixed income development, McHenry and every other Cayce resident must sign a new rental agreement with steeper fines for late rent, stricter limits on guests and cleaning rules, among many others. And higher income tenants won’t have to sign it. That’s making many residents all the more skeptical, casting doubt on whether the housing authority can really deliver on its promise: to build a community where both the city’s poorest citizens and prosperous city-dwellers can live in harmony.”