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- Making Moves on Affordable Housing in Apex
- Candidates Denounce Yes for Durham
- ICYMI: INDY’s Candidate Questionnaires
- Tift Merritt Is A True North Carolina Gem
- Chapel Hill Bar Makes NYT Top Ten List
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Building enough affordable housing is a challenge in municipalities across Wake County, and Apex, the county’s third largest, is no exception.
But at its town council meeting last week, Apex leaders approved a new arrangement that will help it use town-owned land to build essentially permanent affordable housing: a town-sponsored Community Land Trust (CLT).
With a network of more than 300 CLTs across the country, the model—whereby a nonprofit or other “trust” owns land and can sell homes built on that land at a discount to those making less than the area median income—is not unique. Apex is somewhat unique, though, in that its leaders took the initiative to establish a CLT on their own, one of the few government-sponsored CLTs in the country.
The town’s next steps include appointing a board of directors and identifying a managing agency and development partners.
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—Jane
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NEWS
Yes No for Durham
After the INDY’s report this weekend on anonymous political group Yes for Durham, candidates endorsed by the group quickly took to social media to disavow it, Lena Geller reports.
NEWS
Asked and Answered
Early voting starts Thursday. Have you read up on the candidates for Durham mayor and city council? Check out INDY’s candidate questionnaires.
ARTS & CULTURE
Time and Patience
Twenty years ago, what we’d now call roots rock was, to many in the business, an identity crisis: too country for rock; too rock for country. But Tift Merritt succeeded in carving her own path, INDY’s Sarah Edwards writes.
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ELECTIONS: Wiley Nickel is officially running for Wake County District Attorney, WRAL reports.
ELECTIONS: The 9th Street Journal gave Ward 1 city council candidates 30 seconds to answer the question: What’s one thing Durham should do better or differently? Watch their responses.
EDUCATION: As institutions targeted by the Trump administration try to make headway with lawmakers, Duke University has increased its spending on federal lobbying by 110 percent, The Duke Chronicle reports.
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