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Merry Christmas!
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Importantly, the gap between rent and income has risen faster in NC than it has nationally.
New Substack about how housing costs have outpaced incomes this century - and what we can do to fight poverty, increase incomes, and make housing more affordable
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Chapel Hill needs more housing options for undergrads and grad students! It's hard to find good, affordable options. Our land use rules make it even harder than it has to be!
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The Council stalled Wednesday night on positive land use reforms to legalize more homes on smaller lots. When we come back in January, we'll try again--and I'll ask to include triplexes and quadplexes in the legislation.
What is affordable housing? Who is it for, and how do we get more of it? (Hint: legalize more kinds of housing, get rid of poison pill regulations, and get creative with public housing loan funds!)
The President is taking over DC to distract from the Epstein files. Real community safety programs are about harm reduction - and the biggest threat to public safety today is financial desperation driven by high costs and low incomes.
Legalizing single-stair buildings would reduce housing costs across North Carolina. It's not yet a partisan issue, so your legislator should be able to listen when you ask for it!
You can now catch a GoTriangle bus every 15 minutes between downtown Chapel Hill and downtown Durham on the 400 and 405 lines! Free for youths, seniors, and low-income riders, and lots of discounts for local employees.
Parents are struggling to find affordable childcare in North Carolina. Actually, they're struggling to find childcare at all: five families compete for every spot in a licensed facility. We need universal pre-K!
We need politicians across North Carolina to step up and support more affordable housing!
@triangleblogblog.bsky.social
The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
Flood recovery center opening at the Drakeford Library in Carrboro!
Links to volunteer needs across the Triangle: theonollert.substack.com/p/how-to-hel...
🚨🚨Orange County, NC🚨🚨
Ways to help (and get help) here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
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My housing philosophy, summed up.
Thanks to Brighton and @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social for the chance to say it!
This slaps
The Chapel Hill Town Council upholding the values of our community. A special thank you to @theonollert.bsky.social for leading this effort.
#communityvalues #publicsafety
My promise to you is that I will continue to show up. No matter what.
That's why we all need to keep showing up. It's why we need to keep sharing our opinions, building our community, and staying true to the vision of a better life that has motivated the best aspects of American history.
It's easy to forget that when everything is going more or less ok. But we absolutely cannot hide or shrink back when our democracy is under threat. An attack on any elected official is an attack on you, your rights, and our democracy. It's an attack on all of us.
But I also feel resolve. I serve because I love my town, my state, and my country. I serve because I love my fellow Americans. Courage is the cost of admission for elected officials, and it's the price of participation in a democracy for all of us.
I feel anxious because I am an elected official in a country where people may want to hurt or kill me because they disagree with me.
Right now I feel sadness and anxiety. I am sad for the people who were injured and killed, for their families and friends, and for all of us who have to live in a country where this happens all too often to people who aren't also politicians.
Senseless acts of violence like the Minnesota shootings are designed to terrify and intimidate us into silence, and I don't think anyone who holds office should be silent in the face of violence that threatens the foundations of our democracy.
Here's a story you might have missed: one Republican in Raleigh forced city councils across North Carolina to raise property taxes.
Thanks @michaelgparker.bsky.social for the invite!
Enjoyed biking up Manning Drive to the UNC Men's Baseball team win over Holy Cross! One of the attendants insisted that we could not possibly have biked there when we ducked under a rope to retrieve our bikes. Here's the proof! 😂
