by admin | Mar 12, 2024 | Affordable Housing
A number of factors have caused our housing crisis. However, Airbnb is a big contributing factor. Watch the YouTube video story below about the role it has played in reducing the availability of affordable rental housing. Airbnb has affected the housing market in...
by admin | Oct 10, 2023 | 2023 Election, Affordable Housing
CHALT sponsored three webinars this past year on how Chapel Hill can address the housing crisis. You can watch the video of each at the following U-tube links. The video links can be found here. Part I: Origins of the Housing Crisis: How We Got Here Part II: Part II:...
by admin | Jun 27, 2023 | Affordable Housing, Elections, Open Government
The Town Council adopted the so-called “text amendments,” which radically rezone single-family neighborhoods by permitting developers to build duplex apartment buildings of up to 3,000 square feet on single-family lots, was approved by a vote of 6 to 3 at...
by admin | May 28, 2023 | Affordable Housing, Town Planning
What might we expect from the planned rezoning of single-family neighborhoods in our town? More housing, we are told, and a wider range of housing types. These latter are meant to answer a demand for so-called “missing middle” housing – although this designation, as...
by admin | May 19, 2023 | Affordable Housing
Letter to Mayor and Councilors, Davie Circle was formed long ago as a family neighborhood located just off Franklin Street near the UNC campus. But now the neighborhood might face a much different future. Here are houses you see today in the Davie Circle neighborhood....
by Admin | Jan 25, 2023 | Affordable Housing, Town Planning
What is the Town planning to do? The Town proposes to increase the allowable density of R-1 and R-2 zones, which currently allow only single-family detached houses. Under the proposed change, duplexes, triplexes and quadruplexes will be allowed in all neighborhoods...
