housing
Yesterday at noon, Chapel Hill's Economic Development Officer
Dwight Bassett provided a brief, one-hour presentation outlining some
key facts and developments concerning retail, housing, and office space
in Chapel Hill. The full presentation can be viewed here.
I attended and live-tweeted the meeting. You can see the play-by-play below.
The Town of Chapel Hill Special Topics sessions return to the
community with a presentation on student housing at noon Wednesday, Aug.
15, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.
The Special Topics series began during the Chapel Hill 2020
comprehensive planning process as a way to share information with
interested residents who want to know more about issues, trends and
studies that affect the future. For past topics, see
http://bit.ly/zi4gLo.
Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-presenters Christopher Payne,
associate vice chancellor for student affairs, and Larry Hicks, director
of housing and residential education, will provide an overview of the
current on-campus student housing options provided by the University and
plans for future renovation and construction.
They will share information about campus housing and recent student
surveys for the factors that influence where students live as well as
the resources available to students who move off campus. They will also
discuss the University’s business model for campus housing including
factors such as market rates, safety and security and retention.
The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.
Crisp is a 1989 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte and
a 1992 graduate of the UNC School of Law. He began his career at UNC
after his graduation in 1992 working as the school’s first full-time
assistant dean for student affairs and the first associate dean for
student services. He moved to Student Affairs as the assistant vice
chancellor in 2005.
Payne has served in a variety of higher education positions including
assistant director of residence life at the University of Nebraska at
Kearney, director of operations for the department of residence at the
University of Denver and director of housing and residential education
at UNC.
Hicks previously served as associate director of administrative services in the department of housing and residential education.
The public event will be aired live on Chapel Hill Government TV-18 and streamed on the Town of Chapel Hill website at www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1850. For more information about the special topic series, contact Catherine Lazorko at clazorko@townofchapelhill.org or 919-969-5055. For more information about the presenters, contact Susan Hudson at susan_hudson@unc.edu or 919-962-8415.
Date:
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall
The following announcement was released today by Orange County:
Fair Housing Workshop
ORANGE COUNTY, NC – A workshop on fair housing will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Orange County Department of Social Services, Hillsborough Commons, 113 Mayo Street in Hillsborough.
The free seminar “Fair Housing: Know Your Rights” is presented by Fair Housing Project, Legal Aid of NC, Orange County Human Relations Commission, N. C. Justice Center and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Advanced registration is preferred. Contact Pam Reynolds by email (preynolds@co.orange.nc.us) or call 919-245-2490 at Orange County Housing, Human Rights and Community Development Department.
Date:
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Orange County Department of Social Services, Hillsborough Commons, 113 Mayo Street, Hillsborough
Presentation by Dwight Bassett, Chapel Hill's Director of Economic Development
Date:
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Town Hall
It's being reported that school overcrowding "threatens" a moratorium on construction of new homes in Chapel Hill and/or Orange County. Meanwhile, the number of "for sale" signs for existing homes in our neighborhoods are proliferating, as old listings languish and new listings appear.
I was unable to find (after an admittedly quick search) current stats for the number of houses on sale in the various school districts or for the average time a house sits on the market -- probably not numbers that local realtors consider very happy. (Did find reference to an approx. 9% vacancy rate for Chapel Hill, but not certain what that includes -- commercial? residential? both?)
However, it doesn't take a lot of scrutiny to know that there are an unprecedented number of existing houses for sale -- far more than are likely to be built new in the next year, I'd bet. And in the likely event that every one of those houses -- or even half of them -- were sold to families with children by September, the schools would have a difficult time accommodating them.
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