Mosby Court is a

housing project Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to Subsidized housing, subsidized or affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government, central government, nonprofit organizations or a ...

and

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. The neighborhood is named Mosby, while the housing project is named Mosby Court.

Location

Mosby Court is located in the East End quadrant of

. Adjacent to the Richmond City Jail, Mosby Court is primarily served by Coalter Street, which accesses the community North 18th Street ( U.S. Route 360). Directly south of the neighborhood is Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

History

Mosby Court was first built between 1962 and 1970, and contains 458 units. The neighborhood is named after Benjamin Mosby, a 19th-century land developer. As of 2022, Mosby Court has approximately 10,000 residents. In 2022, the city of Richmond redeveloped the housing projects, where they demolished the six largest housing units, replacing them with mixed-income units.

Notable residents

* StaySolidRocky (born 2001), rapper

References

{{Richmond, Virginia neighborhoods Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia Residential buildings completed in 1970 Public housing in the United States 1962 establishments in Virginia

Location

History

Notable residents

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