Homeownership Rates • The homeownership rate for Black households stood at 40.6 percent in the second quarter of 2019—a full percentage point lower than 2018’s second-quarter rate of 41.6 percentage points. The current homeownership rate for Blacks is currently below the 1968 level of 40.9 percent at the time of the passage of the Fair … Read more
Read this report on the State of Fair Housing in North Carolina: Click here to read report
Read the latest report by the North Carolina Housing Coalition on how to ease inequality in home ownership. Click here to view report
The North Carolina Housing Coalition has published this report for Buncombe County. Here is the link to the report: https://nchousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NCH-CountyProfile-Buncombe.pdf
By Leah Douglas (original article published in The Nation) Driving the long, flat roads of Hilton Head Island is hypnotic. One bike-rental shop blends into another; countless villa-style office complexes advertise real-estate agents and banks. Tourists meander to their cars wearing all white, carrying brightly colored smoothies. Rows of palm trees wave slowly over the … Read more
By Trymaine Lee August 14, 2019 (article from NY Times) Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned … Read more
Original Article from Framework, Published on May 6, 2019 Community land trust homeowners all seem to tell the same story. But it’s exciting every time you hear it. It goes like this: Before they bought their home through a community land trust, they struggled with high rents and instability. After, they had a home they could afford, the … Read more
(Article from Asheville Citizens Times) by Dillon Davis Asheville City Council recommitted $1 million Tuesday to a new community land trust that will help the city and Buncombe County offer affordable housing and stave off the effects of neighborhood gentrification. Council unanimously voted to allocate the funding for the Asheville Buncombe Community Land Trust. It comes as … Read more
The Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust was created to provide affordable housing for low income families in the Asheville-Buncombe County area.
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