Affordable Housing

A large Habitat for Humanity community build started by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn returns to Charlotte after a long absence. The project will build 27 affordable homes in the West Boulevard corridor.

The West Side Community Land Trust has purchased 32 homes in Charlotte's Hoskins neighborhood northwest of uptown and plans to keep the homes affordable.

Ahead of Mother’s Day this weekend, a group of women with Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region came together to start construction on a home for a mother in west Charlotte. The volunteers continue a Habitat tradition that started over 30 years ago.

Four area communities and a local church received grants to help address affordable housing issues.

For nearly two decades, the organization QC Family Tree has been rooted in creating social change in Charlotte’s historic Enderly Park neighborhood. One endeavor tackles the displacement of residents by providing affordable housing.

Former President Jimmy Carter started working with Habitat for Humanity in the early 1980s to help address the need for affordable housing. The Carter Work Project made its way to a neighborhood in northeast Charlotte 36 years ago.

Some residents can now get up to $80,000 in assistance to buy a home in parts of west, north and east Charlotte through an expansion of the city’s House Charlotte program.

Voters in several cities approved ballot measures to cap rents, part of a larger resurgence of rent control. Economists warn that such caps can actually reduce affordable housing overall.

A Philadelphia program trains residents how to buy, renovate and sell old homes. It allocates loans and provides expert guidance for the owners' first few projects. It's a model that could be replicated in Charlotte to help with affordable housing.

Asheville may have a model that other North Carolina localities can follow to get around a state restriction many routinely cite as the reason city officials can’t adopt more rules to support affordable housing.