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Homeless No More breaks ground on Grand Village

Homeless No More broke ground Tuesday on Grand Village, an affordable housing community for families, at the former site of Grand Motel on Two Notch Road.

Grand Village is the newest development in HNM’s Live Oak initiative, which provides attainable housing for families with children. The community will provide 30 homes at affordable rents suitable for families.

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Adriana Napolitano
Columbia to spend $160k+ on 'homelessness' consultant despite earlier task force

Years after the city of Columbia formed a special committee tasked with addressing the city’s unhoused population, Columbia has dolled out more than $160,000 to a third party, out-of-state consultant for help. The move comes after years of tension between the city and nonprofits tasked with helping Columbia’s unhoused population and is one that city officials hope will give them an unbiased look at possible solutions.

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Adriana Napolitano
SC eviction records can live forever, haunting state's tenants

The lifespan of an eviction filing in the state of South Carolina, at least under current law, is practically infinite. Kalema Grant, now an investigator for the Columbia Police Department, was pushed to move couch-to-couch with her then-infant daughter by an eviction filing dogging her record. Though Grant received transitional housing assistance from local non-profit Homeless No More and regained her footing, she said the eviction filing was a real barrier to her and her child’s fresh start.

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Adriana Napolitano