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Salisbury public housing could get overhaul (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: October 25,2011

Ciearra Butler wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. But when she found out she was going to have a girl, she wanted a place of her own rather than live with her mother. “I wanted to be independent and give my daughter some privacy,” said Butler, 26. A little less than two years ago she moved [...]


Salisbury plan takes aim at west end area (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 26,2011

Salisbury has launched a plan to improve the city’s West End neighborhood. The plan is particularly aimed at the 72-unit Civic Park public housing development, which was built in 1953, said Joe Morris, the city’s planning services director. A $170,000 federal Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant, which is designed to transform distressed neighborhoods into mixed-income communities, [...]