affordable housing
In observance of National Community Planning Month, the Carrboro
Planning Board is sponsoring three community dialogue sessions. This
year's theme is affordable housing. Each interactive dialogue session is
free and open to the public. The sessions present a great opportunity
to learn the facts and share your vision and ideas. Light refreshments
will be available.
Monday, October 15, 7:00-9:00 pm
Housing Diversity and Affordability in Carrboro
Facilitators: Roberto Quercia (UNC Center for Community Capital) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, Carrboro
Wednesday, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm
Financial and Systemic Issues Affecting Housing Affordability and Access in Carrboro
Facilitators: Bill Rohe (UNC Department of City and Regional Planning) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: OWASA Community Room, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro
Tuesday, October 30, 7:00-9:00 pm
Creative and Collaborative Solutions: Case Studies and Community Visioning
Facilitators: Jamie Rohe (Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro
Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.
Date:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro (Carrboro Century Center)
In observance of National Community Planning Month, the Carrboro
Planning Board is sponsoring three community dialogue sessions. This
year's theme is affordable housing. Each interactive dialogue session is
free and open to the public. The sessions present a great opportunity
to learn the facts and share your vision and ideas. Light refreshments
will be available.
Monday, October 15, 7:00-9:00 pm
Housing Diversity and Affordability in Carrboro
Facilitators: Roberto Quercia (UNC Center for Community Capital) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, Carrboro
Wednesday, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm
Financial and Systemic Issues Affecting Housing Affordability and Access in Carrboro
Facilitators: Bill Rohe (UNC Department of City and Regional Planning) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: OWASA Community Room, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro
Tuesday, October 30, 7:00-9:00 pm
Creative and Collaborative Solutions: Case Studies and Community Visioning
Facilitators: Jamie Rohe (Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro
Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.
Date:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro (OWASA Community Room)
In observance of National Community Planning Month, the Carrboro Planning Board is sponsoring three community dialogue sessions. This year's theme is affordable housing. Each interactive dialogue session is free and open to the public. The sessions present a great opportunity to learn the facts and share your vision and ideas. Light refreshments will be available.
Monday, October 15, 7:00-9:00 pm
Housing Diversity and Affordability in Carrboro
Facilitators: Roberto Quercia (UNC Center for Community Capital) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, Carrboro
Wednesday, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm
Financial and Systemic Issues Affecting Housing Affordability and Access in Carrboro
Facilitators: Bill Rohe (UNC Department of City and Regional Planning) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: OWASA Community Room, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro
Tuesday, October 30, 7:00-9:00 pm
Creative and Collaborative Solutions: Case Studies and Community Visioning
Facilitators: Jamie Rohe (Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness) and Carley Ruff (NC Housing Coalition)
Location: Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro
Questions? Contact Bethany Chaney at bethany.e.chaney@gmail.com.
Date:
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
301 W Main Street, Carrboro (Carrboro Town Hall)
The Town Council's initial reaction to the proposed redevelopment of Colony Apartments (see "Council balks" in the CH News, 7/3/12) is classic Chapel Hill: act high-minded when, in fact, our head is buried deep in the sand. I am an affordable housing advocate and a Chapel Hill resident, but I take a different view of this development proposal.
Am I concerned by the potential loss of one of the community's few apartment complexes that serves a working class population? Of course. Yet the reason such apartment complexes are scarce is that as a community we persistently fail to understand the ongoing impact of our many protectionist, restrictive policies that curb the supply of housing. (With all the PhDs in this town, you'd think we could understand basic supply and demand by now.)
Tonight, the Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from the developers of what once was the Colony Apartments and will now be called The Park at Chapel Hill (a mixed use development). Colony Apartments was one of the only locations of affordable rentals in Chapel Hill, but with this redevelopment that is no longer likely to be the case. With the redevelopment of Glen Lennox in Chapel Hill and the recent purchase of the majority of the units at Abbey Court (now to be called Collins Crossing), affordable rentals may become extinct in Southern Orange County.
This is an issue that Orange County Justice United has been focused on and Tish Galu, Strategy Team Chair for Justice United, made the following statement at the council meeting:
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