The draft plan hinges on the selection of a developer to transform Gilpin Court from a public housing complex to a mixed-housing, mixed-income community.
The 190-page Jackson Ward plan would guide development in the neighborhood, including Gilpin Court, and help align various projects that are underway or in the pipeline.
For Richmond s public housing residents, the possibility of owning a home could be just around the corner with the help of a new Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority pilot program.
The federal government gutted funds to maintain and expand public housing decades ago. Richmond’s housing authority, and others, grapple with how to maintain a deteriorating housing stock.