{"id":191941,"date":"2026-03-14T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191941\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:14:06","slug":"a-new-affordable-housing-development-will-revive-a-once-thriving-neighborhood-on-tallahassees-south-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191941\/","title":{"rendered":"A new affordable housing development will revive a once thriving neighborhood on Tallahassee&#8217;s south side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is now a vacant lot in a once vibrant South Tallahassee neighborhood is getting a reboot. A new 2.5-acre<\/p>\n<p> affordable housing project will soon be under construction on Wallis Street.<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee City Commissioner Curtis Richardson said the area has seen better days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a wonderful neighborhood it used to be. But as people died out and left, the younger folks didn&#8217;t maintain the neighborhood, and we see what it looks like now. So that&#8217;s exciting to know that we&#8217;ll be rebuilding this neighborhood that once thrived on this side of town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Construction is starting to place a total of 17 unattached and duplex housing units on the lot. All of the homes will come with price tags aimed at helping lower-income families achieve homeownership. That\u2019s thanks in part to a community land trust that helps to reduce the cost of homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is now a vacant lot in a once vibrant South Tallahassee neighborhood is getting a reboot. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-191941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}