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.
Charlotte’s unified development ordinance is the part of the city's 2040 plan that puts regulations guiding the city’s future development into one document. A portion of the document focuses on development in historic districts and maintaining their character.
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.