The Community Justice Collaborative of the NC Housing Coalition is a new Triangle-region initiative working in and with a dozen historically Black neighborhoods facing various stages of gentrification. The primary purpose of the Collaborative is to:
- Support and connect community-led efforts in historically Black communities to prevent the displacement of long-term neighbors
- Enable affordable and equitable housing development fulfilling neighborhood visions
Read more on our blog: New Community Justice Collaborative Supports Historically Black Neighborhoods
Aims of the Community Justice Collaborative:
- Foster connections, collaboration, and synergy between historically Black neighborhoods and community-based organizations across the Triangle that would deepen tool sharing and feed policy and advocacy change at local, regional, and state levels.
- Support neighborhood efforts to combat displacement and land loss through long-term neighbor retention strategies: aging-in-community support, property tax equity analysis and advocacy, radical estate and community planning, and creative placemaking.
- Facilitate additional community development, real estate, and land-banking strategies that are structured to build on and be shaped by the power of community organizing, to further enable community-self-determination, and to operate in ways that can bend the market toward community justice.
- Support textured community organizing by working with neighbors to combine the power of stories with neighborhood-owned data to fuel policy advocacy, community development mobilization, and creative homeowner recruitment efforts.
- Mobilize and structure institutional relationships and affordable housing and faith-based partnerships to support community-first efforts, including helping to mobilize critical resources under the control of neighborhoods
Property Tax Justice
The Community Justice Collaborative is developing tools and resources to support property tax justice and relief. The Property Tax Calculator is now available for Durham and Orange Counties.
Overtaxed: Inequities in Orange County’s Property Revaluation
Revaluations are supposed to make property taxes more fair, but Orange County’s 2025 revaluation drastically shifts the burden of property taxes to Historically Black neighborhoods throughout the county by several million dollars. Overtaxed: Inequities in Orange County’s Property Revaluation documents this pattern of bias in the 2025 revaluation and how longstanding residents, neighborhood organizers, and rooted organizations, in partnership with the NC Housing Coalition, have led the way to ensuring property tax justice.
“Part 1: Background” is available now and includes the formation of the Orange County Property Tax Justice Coalition, an overview of the coalition’s findings in the 2025 revaluation, and the data methodology.
