Despite the school system promising to do better, some students take classes at Durham Tech after graduating to achieve proficiency‚ costing them thousands of dollars.
In May 2022, the Hayti Heritage Center of Durham, North Carolina, co-sponsored a ULI Advisory Services panel with the Institute's Foundation to study the Fayetteville Street Corridor. The goal of the panel was to identify opportunities for intentionally inclusive development that would involve the community in both neighborhood planning and economic participation.
Hayti residents displeased with the Durham Housing Authority s plans for Fayette Place say long-promised "urban renewal" of the Hayti community can t come soon enough.
The new development, “The Joyce Senior Residences,” is named after Joyce Thorpe Nichols, who in 1970 became the first woman and the first Black woman to graduate from Duke University s physician assistant program.