Thank you for joining us for this week’s Housing Call. Our next Housing Call will be on Tuesday, March 10 at 9:30am. See below for this week’s call notes and let us know if you have a community update you’d like us to share on the next call.
NC News
WFAE – Charlotte Looking at Lowering Barrier to Developers
Hendersonville Times-News – Homelessness Changing in Hendersonville
National News
Presidential Candidates on Housing – Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020
H.R. 5187 – Housing Is Infrastructure Act
H.R. 149 – Housing Fairness Act of 2020
H.R. 5931 – Improving FHA Support for Small-Dollar Mortgages Act of 2020
H.R. 4351 – Yes in My Backyard Act”
H.R. 2914 – The Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act”
Reports/Resources/Requests/Events
CityLab – “For Those Living in Public Housing, It’s a Long Way to Work”
Journal of the American Planning Association, “Affordable Housing, Disasters, and Social Equity: LIHTC as a Tool for Preparedness and Recovery,“
Economic Policy Institute – “State of Working America Wages in 2019”
National Housing Law Project “Fair Chance Ordinances: An Advocates’ Toolkit
Orange County Housing Authority Board of Directors
Interested persons can apply here:
https://www4.orangecountync.gov/boards/indivbd.asp?BoardID=1258144698
Guest Speaker: Tracey Colores, NCORR
Buyout zone info from Tracey (only includes zones that have been publicly announced and will be updated when new zones added):
Buyout maps can be found at Rebuild.nc.gov/buyout
