The Town of Chapel Hill owns and operates a number of affordable housing units within Chapel Hill and Carrboro, including single up to multiplex residences. Though the Town owns over 300 properties, the area currently faces a deficit of over 5,000 affordable units.
Read More »According to data from North Carolina Healthy Schools, 10 percent of high schoolers in the state attempted suicide in 2021. Among students who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, 21 percent surveyed said they attempted suicide during the same year.
Read More »Although Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is one of the highest-paying school districts in North Carolina, teachers are increasingly unable to afford housing in the district. CHCCS pays teachers a supplement to their base salary and additionally pays teachers local supplements based on years of experience. “It’s really important to us that people who serve the community in Chapel Hill can afford to live here, and right now that’s really not the case,” Daniele Berman, marketing and communications manager for Community Home Trust, said, “Teachers can’t afford to purchase a home in the private market in Chapel Hill."
Read More »A lack of affordable housing and other factors are seen as driving homelessness in Orange County, and local organizations seek to provide resources and personal help to the community.
Read More »Chapel Hill Diversity is an online resource recently launched to support and promote businesses owned by people of color in Orange County. Restauraunts including Mama Dip's Kitchen and nonprofits such as El Centro Hispano are among the 96 featured on the website.
Read More »Melody Kramer, a writer for Triangle Blog Blog, wrote a piece on the pickleball demonstrators and examined the current state of the Town's Parks and Recreation needs that could be met through the use of the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
Read More »In the first election post the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many pro-life and Christian groups are working to limit or end access to abortion across North Carolina.
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Returning for its 25th anniversary, the festival will take place this Sunday in downtown Carrboro with over 100 music groups in attendance. It will host performers in over 15 indoor and outdoor locations beginning at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
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Events like art auctions, school community celebrations and weekly library readings are just a few of the ways Chapel Hill-Carrboro organizers are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
Read More »In response to Queen Elizabeth II's death, Gov. Roy Cooper ordered a public book of condolences to be placed inside the State Capitol, and he invited all North Carolinians to offer personal reflections upon the queen's life.
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