Several commissioners say the county needs to do something about Wall Street-backed companies buying so many houses in Charlotte. The county doesn't have much authority to make policy directly impacting corporate home sales, so they're looking at other options.
Eight years ago, Charlotte ranked 50 out of 50 in an upward mobility study from Harvard University. Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and others join host Mary C. Curtis to discuss upward mobility the good, the not so good and what still needs to be done.
Wells Fargo announced Monday a $200,000 contribution to support WFAE increasing its reporting on communities of color and equity. WFAE will use the investment to build its Race & Equity Team. With Wells Fargo’s contribution, WFAE has raised more than $720,000 of our $1.2 million goal to fund the team for three years.
/ 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.