Affordable Housing

The state Building Code Council wants to modernize rules for energy efficiency in new homes. The state House of Representatives this week passed a bill to block any action. Above, a home under construction in Davidson.

Business

Charlotte home prices climb to a new record, even as sales plunge

Ely Portillo

Home sales in the Charlotte region plunged again last month, falling more than 18% in June compared with the same month last year, continuing a months-long slide. But data released Thursday shows the average price for homes kept rising.

Math teacher Brandi Doty helped Providence High earn the state's second-highest growth rating for 2023.

Education

Plan for CMS teacher housing includes four ‘villages,’ aid for renting and buying

Ann Doss Helms

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' long-term plan for using housing to recruit teachers includes four affordable "villages," plus rental- and home-buying assistance.

Rising home prices in Mecklenburg County make it difficult to buy or rent on a teacher's salary.

Education

CMS ‘Teacher Village’ plan generates excitement and questions for City Council

Ann Doss Helms

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools laid out a plan Monday to build 100 affordable housing units for teachers, and a Charlotte City Council committee recommended earmarking $1 million to get the work started.

The Economy Inn functioned as housing of last resort for about a dozen people. It was also a haven for crime.

Race & Equity

Economy Inn property off Sugar Creek may soon see new townhomes

Lisa Worf

Charlotte City Council will vote Monday on turning over that property to developers planning to build townhomes where the dilapidated motel one stood.

The 2040 Plan calls for allowing duplex, triplex, and quadruplex houses like this one in the Wesley Heights neighborhood in single family neighborhoods.

Business

Some Charlotte neighborhoods beginning to see effects of UDO

Marshall Terry

One of the more contentious changes allowed under the Unified Development Ordinance is for duplexes and triplexes to be built in neighborhoods previously only zoned for single-family homes. And some parts of Charlotte are now seeing that happen. This and more on this week's BizWorthy.

The Gladedale apartments on Providence Road were built in the early 1980s.

Politics

Neighbors, residents worry as housing authority looks to replace low-income complex

Steve Harrison

The Charlotte Housing Authority, now known as Inlivian, plans to rebuild the Gladedale apartments in south Charlotte.

Race & Equity

Housing authority demolished low-income senior apartments in 2017. No new housing has been built

Steve Harrison

The Charlotte Housing Authority, now known as Inlivian, demolished the Strawn Cottages in 2017. It has partnered with a Boston-based developer to build a hotel, office building and apartments on the site. But construction hasn't started.

This house in eastern North Carolina flooded during Hurricane Florence in 2018.

Energy & Environment

State awards $43M in grants to help build affordable housing in counties hit by hurricanes

David Boraks

The final round of federally funded grants through the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) Affordable Housing Development Fund is going to single-family and multi-family housing developments in Bladen, Duplin, Jones, Pamlico, Pender and Scotland counties.

A group of women helps to build a home at Meadows at Plato Price in west Charlotte.

Race & Equity

Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project returns to Charlotte

Elvis Menayese

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.

Charis Blackmon on the 4.5-acre site purchased by The West Side Community Land Trust on West Boulevard.

Business

To save affordability, Charlotte land trust purchases 32 homes in historic Hoskins neighborhood

Nick de la Canal

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.