More than 400 affordable apartments are coming to the Charleston peninsula

The original footprint of the first site of the homeless shelter, One80 Place, runs along Meeting Street, where the shelter is planning to turn the now-vacant property into an affordable housing complex, seen Feb. 12, 2021, in Charleston. Grace Beahm Alford/Staff

Grace Beahm Alford gbeahm@postandcourier.com

By David Slade dslade@postandcourier.com

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At 573 Meeting St. there will be apartments for people transitioning from homelessness, and more apartments for tenants with very low to moderate incomes will rise at the end of F Street behind 670 King St.

“We’ve been working hard to make it happen,” said Geona Johnson, Charleston’s housing director. “The community needs it.”