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/ West Side Community Land Trust Executive Director Charis Blackmon spoke during Friday s groundbreaking for three more permanently affordable houses, off Beatties Ford Road.
Charlotte s West Side Community Land Trust broke ground Friday on three more single-family home projects as part of its effort to expand permanent affordable housing in the area.
They re on Gilbert Street in the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood, off Beatties Ford Road. The land trust plans to move and renovate three donated houses on the lots.
The Land Trust is helping to create and preserve affordable housing in the area. It owns the land, but sells the houses to residents, which helps keep them affordable as land prices rise.
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T Afo Feimster stands next to NC 8, a mural he and fellow artist Abel Jackson just completed at 1600 W. Trade St. in Charlotte. The mural depicts eight legendary Black musicians from North Carolina.
Almost as soon as you head west from uptown Charlotte into the historic Biddleville neighborhood, you’re greeted with public art.
As construction crews worked on West Trade Street near where an extension of the Gold Line Streetcar is coming on a recent morning, color popped behind them. On the side of Johnson C. Smith University’s Arts Factory, a beaming mural showed off past and contemporary scenes from the city’s Historic West End.
PROVIDENCE A progressive advocacy group with money behind it and two state senators on its paid staff on Tuesday announced its arrival in Rhode Island with an ambitious, $300-million legislative agenda that seeks to address racial and economic injustice.
Part of a regional coalition, Renew Rhode Island also hopes to address a severe shortage of affordable housing . a rapidly accelerating eviction emergency, widespread food insecurity, and climate change.
The group is holding a virtual event to officially announce its launch at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
The hopes and aspirations of the group are big and so is the projected price tag for its legislative agenda, which at $300 million is described as 2.5 percent of the state budget.