Two St. Louis artists have found affordable housing in the Gravois Park neighborhood thanks to the St. Louis Art Place Initiative . The nonprofit has six more in the works to be completed by the end of the year, working to an eventual goal of 20 homes.

Art Place was formed in 2019 in response to the Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan , a community blueprint for improvements to some southeast St. Louis neighborhoods. Co-Director Kaveh Razani said the plan called for arts-based infrastructure, affordable housing and public art. Along with housing, some of the grants Art Place has received will go toward public art installations and a community art space and garden.

The initiative receives funding from a variety of streams, but the city’s Community Development Administrat

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