SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) – A Lowcountry nonprofit agency is taking a swing at Charleston’s affordable housing crisis with its second annual fundraising golf tournament.
The Arnold Collins Legacy Golf Classic by the Palmetto Community Action Partnership will take place Wednesday morning at the Golf Club at Westcott Plantation.
The fundraiser, which tees off at 9 a.m., will generate nearly $10,000 to support lower-income families secure housing across the Charleston area, the Palmetto Community Action Partnership’s primary purpose beyond its regular utility assistance programs. Organizers say the event serves as a vital supplement to government funding.
“Building affordable housing is a long-term effort to make our communities more self-sufficient and sustainable,” the Palmetto Community Action Partnership’s Community Relations Coordinator, Brianna Holman, says. “Helping families lower their costs and find stability has a lasting impact.”
Funds from the tournament will help offset costs for 14 rental homes for medium-to-low-income families in West Ashley, downtown Charleston and North Charleston. The Palmetto Community Action Partnership says proceeds will also go toward new home construction projects, including four houses currently being built downtown in partnership with the City of Charleston.
The event honors Arnold Collins, the Palmetto Community Action Partnership’s first director who led the organization for 31 years. His mission to strengthen families through affordable housing continues to this day through initiatives that focus on long-term solutions rather than temporary relief. Holman says for a lot of families, they are better off financially in a cheaper well-furbished property of their own rather than repetitively paying to patch up decaying infrastructure.
“Sometimes there’s a lot of work that needs to be done and it only just makes sense with how much money they’re spending to just keep their head above water for them to invest in a house,” Holman says. “If we can take that load off and help someone have a better long-term goal and help their lives be better in the future, that’s what we can do.”
Holman says that while the Palmetto Community Action Partnership’s well-known “mega-rollouts” provide immediate assistance with utility bills, these housing investments address deeper, systemic needs in the region’s growing affordability crisis.
So far, 80 participants have registered for the tournament, with multiple local businesses signing on as sponsors. Registration costs $150 per person.
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