Housing

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• Who has access to homeownership in North Carolina?
  By Jeff Tiberii, Rachel McCarthy. News & Observer real estate journalist Chantal Allam joins co-host Jeff Tiberii to talk about the homeownership gap, the history of restrictive covenants in our region, and who has access to homeownership in North Carolina now. Published April 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
• Racially Restrictive Covenants Project
  Volunteers have been working to explore the Wake County Register of Deeds archives and uncover historic insights into their community's past, with the goal to catalog and map "restrictive covenants" embedded in legal documents across hundreds of properties. These covenants imposed racial restrictions on who could buy or live on certain lands in Wake County. The project is creating a searchable, interactive map that raises awareness and fosters understanding of how these practices impacted Wake County neighborhoods and the community today.
• EMPOWERment, Inc.
  EmPOWERment, Inc.’s mission is to empower individuals and communities through community organizing, affordable housing, and grass roots economic development. In 1996, two UNC Social Work students, Myles Presler and Termain Kyles, heard directly from residents about some of the challenges they were facing including: high housing costs, low quality housing, political and economic disempowerment, and low household incomes.
  EmPOWERment, Inc. was established to not only build homes, but also to build lives. In order to raise community awareness and dialogue, a multi-pronged and ambitious mission was created for the growing organization.
• Single-family rental companies acquiring thousands of homes in Charlotte area
  Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, Carolina Public Press, February 7, 2022