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Speakers press council to boost affordable housing funding and require on-site units near transit
Summary
Public commenters urged Raleigh to increase annual affordable-housing funding to $70 million, identify city-owned land for developers partnered with 1Wake, and resist accepting payment-in-lieu instead of on-site affordable units for transit-adjacent projects.
Jessica Turner, a Wakefield resident and member of a Southeast Raleigh congregation affiliated with 1Wake, asked the City Council to increase the annual affordable housing budget to $70,000,000 and to identify 100 acres of city-owned land where 1Wake could build affordable homes and apartments. Turner said the request follows a grassroots listening campaign and petition drive by more than 10,000 members and institutions that 1Wake represents.
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