A neighborhood with food insecurity, low performing schools, high levels of crime and violence, sub-standard housing, high unemployment, health disparities, and low economic mobility creates an unhealthy and unsafe environment for its residents, limited opportunity, risk of displacement, and impedes the healthy neurological and physiological development of its children.
ub Village and Accabee are adjacent neighborhoods in lower North Charleston, centrally located in a rapidly changing area, near the intersection of Cosgrove and Azalea and nearby the Rivers Avenue commercial redevelopment. Its residents are hardworking people who care about their families, one another, and their community.
Their history is long, and their culture is rich … but their community is under-resourced, and ripe for gentrification..