Like many people, Jasmine had a negative view of housing authorities—commonly conflated with ‘the projects’—before she came to live at New Leaf in Walker’s Bend, Covington. The 25-year-old flight attendant was pregnant and needed “reasonable, well kept” housing when she saw an ad in the paper for New Leaf, an affordable housing apartment complex owned and operated by the Covington Housing Authority.Nearly a year after moving in, Jasmine says she “loves” her living arrangement, and that New Leaf is “perfect” for her infant son. “I think I was a little more hesitant when I first found out [it