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After residents advocated for blue light police boxes in Norfolk, the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority has begun the process to install them.
Housing activists and tenants displaced from Tidewater Gardens fought for their right to return to the new housing complex. Yet as two new buildings have begun leasing, only a small number of former residents have signed leases to return.
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NORFOLK — New brick and mortar loom tall as buildings spring up along Wood Street and Church Street in the St. Paul’s neighborhood. The gleaming glass windows and untarnished brick facades are a stark contrast to Tidewater Gardens — the squat 1950s-era public housing complex that previously stood across the way, encircled in wrought iron fencing. The city began to demolish the 600-plus unit .