Watson’s journey highlights the profound impact of community land trusts in preserving affordability and fostering community ownership. Through RALT's initiative, Watson was able to establish permanent roots in the same community that he grew up in and remains deeply connected.
There are just 40 affordable and available rental homes for every 100 extremely low-income households in North Carolina.
Sarah Davis, a realtor in Watauga County, realized something was missing from most of her transactions: people. Nameless companies from somewhere else — usually under some otherwise bland word followed by “LLC” — were buying up most of the properties in her...
North Carolina homeowners and renters could be hit with higher insurance rates later this year, and in the state's coastal counties like Cartaret, New Hanover, and Brunswick, those rates could be astronomically higher. In January, the North Carolina Rate Bureau...
The actions announced last week will promote fairer rental markets, boost the supply of affordable housing and manufactured homes, and help families who are struggling to make ends meet.
My neighborhood’s Facebook group in Guilford County is where you can find a neighbor to fix your broken pipe when a plumber can’t be reached or help cut up a dead limb when an arborist is too expensive. Potlucks are arranged in this group and, right now, the local...
Medicaid expansion has provided almost 300,000 North Carolinians with access to healthcare. Parker Chatham is the Executive Director of Restoration House, a low barrier homeless shelter in Bryson City. He says that Medicaid expansion has especially helped the...
In Sept. 2020, the median home sale price in North Carolina was $272,000. As of Sept. 2023, that figure had risen to $363,600.
President Biden said he wants to reduce homelessness in the United States by 25% by 2025 and to rehouse 38,000 veterans in 2023.
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