Gainsboro Houses

A well-maintained and freshly painted home sits across from a more dilapidated looking house with a rusty roof in this Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority photograph of a street in Gainsboro. The presence of poorly maintained properties in the vicinity of a home was used as justification for lower property valuation by city officials, even if the homeowner had put a great deal of money into the maintenance of their property.