There’s a padlocked chain-link fence around what obviously was a public housing complex in Orangeburg, S.C. The units, boarded up with decaying plywood, are located near the intersection of Boulevard and Wannamaker streets about a mile from S.C. State University’s campus in a neighborhood with homes of wide-ranging value.
The City of Orangeburg, known for its gardens and historically black colleges, officially is home to 13,850 people and has a 31.3 poverty rate in 2012, but the greater area has more than 65,000 people.
Orangeburg County is home to more than 91,000 people, two thirds of whom are black. The county has a poverty rate of 24.5 percent.
Copyrighted photo was taken April 23, 2014 by Andy Brack. All rights reserved.