Rent increases are displacing residents of aging duplexes in Orange County whose wages can’t keep up with real estate market prices; it’s the same story all over the Triangle.
Jasmine Gallup
Jasmine Gallup is a freelancer for INDY, covering LGBTQ+ issues, social justice, and arts and culture. A Raleigh native, she also works as an editor for online media.
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15 Minutes: Michael Oakes, 21
Third-year engineering student at NC State and candidate for the state House of Representatives talks housing, marijuana, and libertarianism.
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Durham Meals on Wheels Celebrates Nearly 50 Years
The program currently serves about 600 people in Durham County, where it delivered more than 200,000 meals last year.
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Wake County Gets $4.1 Million to Fight Homelessness
Wake County and Raleigh got a big financial boost to their efforts to house people who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
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Affordable Housing, Parking Top Raleigh City Council’s Agenda This Week
This week in Raleigh: the city commits $4 million to preserve affordable rents, some restaurant relief programs enacted during COVID may become permanent, and developers are no longer required to include parking in their projects.
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Wake County Library Makes It Harder to Ban Books
Following administrators’ decisions to remove and reshelve books, Wake’s library system is updating its book challenge policies.
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Things to Do This Weekend in the Triangle
With a warm summer weekend ahead, catch an outdoor concert or check out a working goat farm.
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Photoseries: Freedom Convoy-Inspired Anti-Vaxxers Descend Upon Raleigh
Organized by right-wing extremists, the protest soon turned into an impromptu rally for white supremacist group the Proud Boys.
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Raleigh Clothing Designer Draws on His Heritage and Gives Back to the Country That’s His Biggest Creative Influence
Mohammad Sadat, founder of AFGNSTN Clothing, uses fashion to flip the narrative around his ancestral home of Afghanistan.
