Spartanburg Housing Authority

HOUSING PROGRAMS

Public Housing
SHA owns and operates 10 multi-family sites for a total of 994 units and an additional 31 single-family scattered site units:

Woodworth Homes 50
Camp Croft Courts 120
Cammie Clagett Courts 150
Archibald Rutledge Village 200
Victoria Gardens 80
Scattered Sites 31 (Lease-Purchase)
Prince Hall Apartments 100
Gooch/Watson/Barksdale 108
Leland/Spruce Street 58
Tobias Booker Hartwell 118
Country Estates 10

Operations of the public housing units are funded through subsidy received from HUD as well as rent from tenants. SHA receives an annual allocation of Capital Grant Funds for modernizing the units.

SHA also owns and operates JC Bull, an elderly community consisting of 132 units.

The wait list for public housing is open for applications. SHA maintains separate wait lists for conventional public housing, Country Gardens Tobias, Campus of Learners, Lease-Purchase, and JC Bull. Currently the only preference utilized by SHA other than date and time of application is displacement due to governmental action, and homeless.

Section 8 Housing
SHA currently has an allocation of 1606 Vouchers and 349 Moderate Rehabilitation Certificates of which are 97% utilized. Vouchers are used by participants to rent from private landlords. SHA is accepting new applications for Section 8 preferences only. Preferences for 1) dislocated due to govt action 2) Public Housing tenant desiring to participate in S8 home ownership Program 3) households being displaced as a result of public housing improvement projects & 4) public housing residents being displaced from units subject to unit inclusion in home ownership program administered by SHA. The Moderate Rehabilitation Certificates were issued to Morningside, Oakview, Norris Ridge and SHA administers the program. Applications must be submitted on-site for housing any of the three sites.

SHA Low Income Housing Tax Credits
As a component of the previously awarded HOPE VI Grant, units demolished at Tobe Hartwell were in part replaced by a Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) project at Country Garden Estates (100 units). LIHTC offers a means to construct future affordable rental units.

Home ownership Initiatives
SHA has been involved in a number of homeownership initiatives in the past. The design and delivery of the programs were impressive and included the following programs:

Pineview Hills – Turnkey III Beginning in 1972, 100 single-family homes were constructed by SHA. Prior to 1994, twenty of the homes were sold and the remainder was retained for rental. During the period of 1994-1999, the remaining eighty homes were sold.

Ernest Rice Estates - Beginning in 1994, SHA participated in a collaborative redevelopment project with The City of Spartanburg and the Spartanburg Residential Development Corporation to restore neighborhoods and create homeownership opportunities. SHA developed and sold twenty-four single-family homes.

New Hope Estates - As a component of the HOPE VI project, SHA built and sold thirty-seven single-family homes.

Country Garden Estates - The final stage of the HOPE VI project involved the construction of 13 single-family homes for homeownership. The thirteen homes have been constructed and 6 have been sold. This new development also includes an additional 25 lots for homeownership construction. The additional construction of these 25 homes should begin in 2004 following the sale of the existing properties that were completed in the Fall of 2002.