Ground is expected to be broken this spring on 35 new homes in the Spencer Hills neighborhood near Columbia.
The Anderson Homes Foundation has received a $1.2 million gift from the Columbia-based Veterans United Foundation for the project. Anderson Homes Foundation president Mark Briley tells 939 the Eagle this is a huge opportunity:
“We’re really excited to get to be a part of it and we think it’s going to make a huge impact on the lives of our hard-working neighbors and citizens who are doing all the right things. They just … housing is, the reason we call it attainable is because it’s not affordable,” Briley says.
Columbia city manager De’Carlon Seewood says the city is grappling with a housing crisis. This new project will provide some help with that. Anderson Homes Foundation president Briley praises the $1.2 million gift from the VU Foundation:
“This gift is astronomically important to the work we do. We couldn’t do it without it. You know we started the foundation with a zero budget but we wanted to leverage the resource that we had, which was to build homes,” Mr. Briley says.
He expects the new homes to begin at $168,000 to about $175,000.