Greenville picked up the pace on affordable housing in 2022. What’s next?

The Greenville Housing Fund, with help from the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority and other partners, says it is on track to narrow the housing affordability gap in Greenville County by the end of the decade. In an article appearing in The Post and Courier, journalist Conor Hughes covered GHF’s annual meeting where it was reported that the nonprofit helped add and preserve more affordable units in Greenville in 2022 than it did in the previous four years combined.

In the coming years, GHF will focus on the city’s special emphasis neighborhoods – historically Black, low-income neighborhoods. Hughes cited census data showing that the Black population in Greenville dropped by close to 8 percent, as the city’s total population jumped 21 percent in the years spanning 2010-2020. He also spoke to Furman University’s Ken Kolb, chair and professor of sociology, who said the decline in Black residents is spurred largely by redevelopment pressures increasing the cost of living.