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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As Charlotte looks for ways to address its affordable housing crisis, officials may want to emulate Austin, Texas, where the community is battling gentrification and rising rents.
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The Unified Development Ordinance has been approved by Charlotte's City Council, and the document includes development regulations from parking to affordable housing. The plan was contentious and may still change before it goes into effect next year. We speak with Charlotte's Interim Planning Director and local analysts.
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A Charlotte agency that helps homeless and low-income people find homes say they're running short on landlords willing to take in the people they work with.
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The Southern Comfort Inn housed around 150 to 200 people, according to city officials, who otherwise were at risk of homelessness. The city says that they have offered monetary assistance to help keep its residents housed and helped connect them to other services within the community.
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Mecklenburg County has chosen United Way of Central Carolinas to oversee the development and execution of a long-term plan to reduce and prevent homelessness in the Charlotte area.