If you’ve walked or biked along the western side of South Street recently, you’ve probably noticed the activity around Heritage Park. The 11-acre affordable housing community is being demolished and rebuilt from the ground up. The story of how the Raleigh Housing Authority (RHA) is handling it is worth paying attention to. This isn’t just a construction project. It’s a test of whether Raleigh can do urban redevelopment without repeating the mistakes that destroyed communities in this exact part of the city decades ago.

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