Middle class morass
While the Charlotte real estate market remains affordable relative to many other U.S. markets, there is growing evidence that many middle class, professional families cannot afford to buy a home.
View ArticleCharlotte City Council meeting, Monday, Nov. 11
Assisted housing on transit: The Council unanimously approved changes to the city’s assisted-multifamily housing at transit-station-area policy. A transit-station area is generally defined as the area...
View ArticleCharlotte City Council approves funding for two affordable-housing communities
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council meeting on Monday night began with the pomp and circumstance of Mayor Patsy Kinsey’s State of the City address, her last meeting as the head of city government....
View ArticleNeighbors protest proposed affordable apartments
CHARLOTTE – More than 100 people crowded into a church office building to question officials about the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership’s plan to rezone a 7-acre parcel from a child care...
View ArticleCity Council approves auto mall along future light rail
CHARLOTTE – In a livelier-than-usual City Council zoning meeting Monday night, the council’s meeting chamber was packed to the brim with rezoning opposition, but council members offered curiously...
View ArticleMarket forces out workers
CHARLOTTE – Julie Porter has spoken to teachers and nurses’ aides who live as far away as Gastonia and Stanly and commute to south Charlotte daily. Porter, the president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg...
View ArticleCity Council approves affordable housing project in south Charlotte
CHARLOTTE – The City Council on Tuesday approved by a 9-2 vote a controversial south Charlotte rezoning that will allow the construction of workforce housing in a neighborhood that largely opposed the...
View ArticleSuccess may pave way for more housing
CHARLOTTE – Many people left Tuesday’s City Council meeting carrying with them heavy adjectives. Some were disappointed, others were shocked and a few were incensed. The majority of those people were...
View ArticleRezonings sought for YMCA, apartments, homes
CHARLOTTE — An expanded YMCA, an 850 unit apartment and housing development, condominiums, an apartment redevelopment and storage units are all on the rezoning agenda for city officials. The City...
View ArticleHousing counseling program receives city contract
Charlotte’s City Council recently voted in favor of The Housing Partnership and one other nonprofit serving as the City’s housing counseling and education services provider following an extensive...
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