affordable housing

House Bill 306 would have given Boone, Blowing Rock and Watauga County Board of Education the opportunity to provide workforce housing for municipal workers and teachers.

House Bill 306 would authorize Boone, Blowing Rock and the Watauga County Board of Education to provide workplace housing for town and county staff and teachers.

The county could also see a steep shortage of units over the next few years, according to the study.

The proposed program would include an application window and evaluation criteria on a development's quality, project team and financial feasibility.

The new fund looks to create 1,000 new affordable housing units in the area.

Economic factors including a lack of affordable housing, child care issues and stagnant wages had more than doubled the number of people the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina and its partners served in the last two years.

The city council approved forgiving a $157,000 lien on a property, giving a local housing advocacy group the go-ahead to start what they say could be the first cooperative community of its kind in the city.

Fifty projects across the state were approved for financial awards including three developments in Winston-Salem and two in Greensboro.

A local advocacy group is pushing for more CBAs, which they say would better promote more equitable and fair development.

The Winston-Salem-based housing rights group looks to create a co-op that would allow residents to collectively own a downtown property.