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NC agency awards $8.7M for special housing needs across state including Triad

Greensboro is among the cities that will benefit from funding directed toward North Carolinians with special housing needs. Adobe stock photo.

Greensboro is among the cities that will benefit from funding directed toward North Carolinians with special housing needs. Adobe stock photo. 

The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency has approved $8.7 million in funding to expand opportunities for those with special housing needs. The funding will benefit a number of sites statewide. 

In Greensboro, 12 apartments will be rehabilitated to provide transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness, and those at risk of having no place to live. In a separate project, a new 16-unit apartment building in Oakwood Park will house low-income residents and people with disabilities.

Access to 100 beds will be provided for Winston-Salem participants in a residential substance abuse program.

The funding comes through the agency’s Supportive Housing Development Program, which finances emergency, transitional and permanent housing for residents with special needs who are below 50% of the area's median income. Those benefitting can include military veterans, people experiencing homelessness, children in or aging out of foster care, and survivors of domestic violence. 

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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