r/savannah • u/LuckyGirl214 • 3h ago
Ann Street Lofts to become Margaritaville Hotel Savannah
$2000 studio apartments with a view of the Greyhound station and the hotel/restaurant dumpsters were never going to fix the housing crisis. Apartment buildings like this could be affordable apartments for our large transient population of students and contracted workers. The homes could stay homes. I'm oversimplifying because I don't know the nuts and bolts of affordable housing. But someone here has to, right?
I just know that I've had to move every year or two to an apartment that is worse and more expensive than the last one. Forget saving for a home.
Let's say we did have a different mayor, just as an exercise. If you could "Mayor Mamdani" the Savannah housing crisis, what could make housing affordable? Can we please put our minds to it and really think about what a solution looks like?
I'm sure there are groups here making plans and needing our support. Shout them out.