“Buncombe County government works proactively to incentivize affordable and workforce housing options as well as a diversified economy.”
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Affordable housing essay: Support successful models adequately
“Hearing the voices of those most impacted by the housing crisis is vital to creating solutions.”
A place to call home: Affordable housing essays, part three
“Affordable housing is not just a housing problem,” notes Mike Figura, who owns Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty. “It’s a housing supply problem; it’s a wage problem; it’s an employment problem.”
Letter writer: There IS a silver bullet that could end the housing shortage in Asheville!
“So, if housing development restrictions in Asheville could be done away with, there would soon be ample housing for all at affordable prices.”
Affordable housing essay: How badly do we want it?
“The solution to the affordable housing problem is political and community will.”
Affordable housing essay: Going out of business
“Whenever people ask what we need to create more affordable housing, we say: capital.”
Affordable housing essay: Black neighborhoods will be obliterated
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series in which local experts were asked: “What would it take to solve the Asheville area’s affordable housing problem?” Housing in Asheville is simultaneously booming and in crisis. The summer of 2015 seems to be culminating in trends that are several years deep. Construction has been on […]
Affordable housing essay: Affordable housing or affordable living?
“Why is the focus on “affordable housing” and not on “affordable living”? The official “affordable housing” definitions focus narrowly on rent; transportation costs are ignored.”
Home, cheap home? Affordable housing essays, part two
What would it take to solve the Asheville area’s affordable housing problem?
Affordable housing essay: Let’s subsidize real affordability
“For every job created with a subsidy that doesn’t provide a living wage, let’s provide a genuinely affordable home.”
Little Big City Blues: Asheville’s growing housing crisis
Surrounded by mountains and crammed into a 45-square-mile valley, the city of Asheville is bursting at the seams, suffering from a severe housing shortage, skyrocketing rents and home prices, overcrowded streets with no place to park, and an abundance of lower-paying, tourism-based jobs.
Affordable housing essay: Collision course
“We must address the housing crisis now, before it’s too late. I believe this can be done by requiring employers to pay their employees a living wage — which, like affordable housing, is also an endangered species here.”
Affordable housing essay: A complex problem
“The free market isn’t good at providing housing for low- to moderate-income folks. … For builders, a lower-cost home is almost always a lower-profit home.”
Affordable housing essay: No silver bullet
“We believe that a rigorous case-by-case evaluation and review of proposals and programs by groups that are on the front lines of the problem is the best way to reduce workforce housing costs.”
Affordable housing essay: Helping children and families thrive
“Safe, affordable housing is a step toward opportunity and success but not the final destination. It’ll take accessory units, manufactured homes, cooperatives, land banks, increased density, small homes and apartments to address the lack of supply.”
Affordable housing essay: Affordable housing is everybody’s problem
“Every day, our case managers work to find safe, affordable places for our clients to live. Now, however, we simply cannot find those homes.”
The quest for affordable housing: An introduction
Forget “Keep Asheville Weird.” For many locals, the motto might as well be: “Make Asheville Affordable.”
Letter writer: City of Asheville should fund and build apartments for homeless veterans
“if the city of Asheville really wants to fulfill the mayor’s promise to Michelle Obama to end veteran’s homelessness, it is going to have to figure out a way to fund and build a veterans apartment building or create some affordable housing for veterans another way.”
Letter writer: Consider landlords’ perspectives in affordable housing issue
“If you are upset about the lack of affordable housing in Asheville, consider these numbers — the true monthly costs of being a landlord.”
< / housing crisis > : Code for Asheville harnesses technology to help renters, homebuyers
Members of Code for Asheville, a local Code for America brigade, are taking steps to help alleviate one of the city’s biggest problems: the affordable housing crisis.
Biltmore Apartments gets go ahead from Asheville Council
The Asheville City Council has approved construction of 477 apartments in two developments — one in East Asheville, whose residents wore “Keep Oakley safe” stickers and urged denial of the project. Council members cited a demand for housing and a promise of $200,000 to improve sidewalks in the area.