The Grand Village, a gated community will replace the Grand Hotel located at 3003 Two Notch Road. Sara Fawcett of United Way of the Midlands and Dr. Lila Anna H. Sauls President and CEO of Homeless No More announced the up coming development.
Read MoreOn Thursday, leaders with the non-profits Homeless No More and the United Way of the Midlands announced plans to transform the old motel on Two Notch Road into an attainable housing apartment complex for young families.
In an homage to the motel, the complex will be named the “Grand Village.”
Read MoreA derelict motel on a busy stretch of Columbia’s Two Notch Road will be remade into a gated community with mixed rents for families to find attainable housing. Under the plan, the Grand Motel at 3003 Two Notch Road, a storied but deteriorating motel built in the 1950s, will become Grand Village, a gated housing village with 40 apartment homes at varying price points and a community center.
Read MoreA $10 million project to repurpose the Grand Motel on Two Notch Road into an affordable housing community for mixed incomes is underway.
Homeless No More and United Way of the Midlands announced the new development plan to the public Thursday morning at the Grand Motel.
Read MoreCity of Columbia announced plans to bring more attainable housing to the Midlands. Homeless No More's President/CEO Dr. Lila Anna Sauls is a part of the Affordable Housing Task Force and one of the developers the City's plan was proposed to.
Read More“This is not the norm. These are not the homeless who want to come in for services. The families Homeless No More serves want lasting independence.” – Dr. Lila Anna Sauls, Homeless No More President & CEO.
Read MoreThose at encampments like the one on Old Forest Road are considered to be the “chronically homeless” who are not seeking services in shelter and only make up a small portion of the homeless population, according to Lila Anna Sauls who runs the nonprofit Homeless No More.
Read More"When the community talks about homelessness, it's primarily men and women. It's the population that you see, you don’t see homeless families." – Dr. Lila Anna Sauls, Homeless No More President & CEO
Read MoreProviding a spectrum of care — from emergency services to transitional and affordable housing to life skills classes and job search assistance — keeps families together and empowers them to work toward a permanent, self-sufficient solution.
Read MoreHomeless No More purchased the property on Waites Avenue with the goal to replace it with a home within the year to be sold as affordable housing as a part of a program to create generational wealth in the community.
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