Caroline Willingham | Queens University News Service

Noughties Market CLT is the brainchild of Ella Vernile, Bella Hogan and Mariela Ferreira. After individually selling their own vintage goods online and in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood, they realized how few vintage markets featured women vendors.

Eight years ago, a group of local artists stumbled upon a unique opportunity — a developer offered them an abandoned Goodyear tire center as a home for their work. A space for collaboration and messiness became a program where artists support other artists.

The pressure on homebuyers to offer thousands of dollars more than the asking price may be easing in Charlotte's real estate market. Experts claim house prices in the Queen City are affordable when compared to other major markets.

People love Charlotte’s Greek Festival for the baklava and gyros. But the way the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral teaches folk dancing could show a few new moves to congregations nationwide, that are facing historic declines in attendance.

After two years of work by Charlotte affordable housing advocates, a campaign to end discrimination against renters based on the source of their income should reach a climax in the next two months.

A report issued Thursday, Oct. 14, by Mecklenburg County and UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute, found that homelessness in the county increased by 55% last year, from 2,025 people in June 2020 to 3,137 in June 2021.