2000 - 2015
History:
- December 01, 2000 - Tobe Hartwell Apartments is torn down and rebuilt through a $14.6 million grant and renamed the Tobias Booker Hartwell Campus of Learners.
- January 06, 2003 - After searching for nearly a year, the Spartanburg Housing Authority board found its next director, Roy A. Johnson of Wichita, Kan. While the board looked for the right candidate, William Falkenberry served as interim director, keeping things rolling at the Church Street office. He served until February 2008.
- June 2004 - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development notified U.S. representatives and senators who would receive HOPE VI grants. The Spartanburg Housing Authority was among them. The grant was just one piece of a more than $85 million dream for Spartanburg - a dream that will come alive through the commitments of dozens of public and private agencies that want to help. One part called for replacing the 184 units at Phyllis Goins with a more "traditional neighborhood" complete with a new community center, park and recreational center. Another part was creating about 400 affordable and market rate homes in other neighborhoods - Country Gardens, Victoria Gardens, the Page site and properties on Shaw Avenue and Wilmont Street.
- August 2005 - Construction began on the Senior Life and Wellness Center at Archibald Rutledge public housing complex.
- November 10, 2008 -- The Spartanburg Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to hire a North Carolina consultant as the agency's new director , Harry A. Byrd Jr. Byrd was the senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Charlotte Housing Authority from 1991 to 1998 and has worked in state government for the Commonwealth of Virginia and in the private banking industry. He retired in October 2014.
- October 12, 2012 - The City of Spartanburg is one of only 17 cities in the country to receive a $300,000 federal Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant for community redevelopment.
- March 2013 - The Spartanburg Housing Authority received a score as a "High Performer," the highest possible designation, on its annual Public Housing Assessment System Score Report for Interim Rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- June 2015 - The Spartanburg Housing Authority selected an administrator from a housing authority in Detroit to become its new executive director; Terril Bates, deputy executive director of the Detroit Housing Commission. She replaced Harry Byrd, who resigned for health reasons. Daryl Dalton served as Interim prior to her tenure. She served until September 2018.
