In a county with some of the most expensive property in the state and a soaring average single-family home value, area workers often find it difficult to live where they work.
The Assembly of Governments, the municipal governments of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County, will convene at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Town Hall in Carrboro.
The agenda includes discussion of the state of affordable housing within the county and to examine how housing policies have met the needs of the area's more modest earners.
A family of four would be eligible for affordable housing if its household income were less than 80 percent of the county median - or below $57,050 yearly. A single person would have to make less than $39,950.
Chapel Hill housing, at an average annual cost of $342,426 last year, ranks among the most expensive in the Triangle.
"We will be talking about what we've already done over the (past) four or five years," said Tara Fikes, Orange County housing and community development director, of the meeting.
"A lot of the planning and goal-setting will take place."
Fikes said she believes future needs must be met with a smorgasbord of options.
"We've done a lot of good work so that high level of commitment will be needed in order for us to be totally successful," she said.
