Alicia im alicia barnes. Columbia Housing Authority is asking the city for 1 million as a demolition budget for the gardens. Ben grace joyal has their story. Grace . Grace this complex was built in 1940. Thousands of families have passed through its walls. The walls show their years. The feds say its time to knock them down. I got to meet a pair of twin sisters tonight who say this is bittersweet. They see this as an opportunity to find newer housing. Theyll certainly hold tight to the memories theyve created in this place. Its not where you live but how you live. Thats what row landda sanderland told her 17yearold son, a sttighta student at Ac Flora High School after he told his friend he lives in gonzalez gardens. He has actually showed them his i. G. With the address address i. D. With the address on there for them to believe he lived out here because they carried themselves the way he did lived in an area like this. Grace the Public Housing complex, one of the oldest in the country