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This New Year's Eve, the Oakridge Neighborhood community is hosting an art installation titled "50 Years, 50 Faces of Oakridge".

Its purpose is to celebrate the diversity among the residents and the housing project being around for 50 years.

But it's also a way to facilitate a change in the narratives associated with low-income housing, by showing anyone who stops by to see the art, the residents of this housing project are more than their environments.

The CEO and President of the 17-acre complex, Teree Caldwell-Johnson, said the art installation will be projected onto a wall on the Silver Oaks building, in the neighborhood.

"The 50 faces ... allows us to reflect not only the individuals that we serve but also the resilience of those individuals as they persevere through all of the effects not only of COVID in 2020, but the effects of poverty," Caldwell-Johnson said.

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