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Council hears data on housing affordability as city highlights Bringing Neighbors Home pilot
Summary
City staff told the council that Raleigh faces a broad housing-affordability crisis and outlined supply-side reforms, bond-funded projects and a pilot program that has enrolled 40 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and placed almost all of them into housing.
Raleigh city staff told the City Council on the second day of its 2025 retreat that the city faces an affordability crisis driven by high demand, rising land values and construction costs, and that addressing homelessness requires both more housing supply and targeted interventions.
Pat Young, planning and development director, told the council “We have an, housing affordability crisis both in Raleigh and in most metro areas nationally,” and said staff sees three areas of action: increasing overall supply, expanding income-restricted units and scaling evidence-based homelessness responses.
Why it matters: Raleigh is among the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the U.S., and city officials said the market has pushed rents up substantially since 2017. Staff argued that zoning changes and incentives that allowed so-called “missing middle”…
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