Today on the Public Verse, Vikki spoke with Geona Shaw Johnson the director of the department of housing and community development for the City of Charleston and Eddie Bines, the housing manager for the department of housing and community development for the City of Charleston. We discussed the opportunities residents have to rehabilitate their homes, replace their roofs, update the major systems of their homes all with the help of the city. Programs also include assistance for small scale developers to build or rehab existing homes and the public and nonprofit partnerships they create to make these programs possible so that residents can age in place and combat the increasing lack of affordable housing in Charleston.