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Raleigh staff outline anti‑displacement tools, vulnerability index and preservation programs
Summary
City housing staff told council the city already uses many anti‑displacement strategies—supply expansion, preservation, targeted investment and eviction prevention—and presented a housing vulnerability index and examples from peer cities to guide a potential formal anti‑displacement plan.
Emily Sutton, Raleigh’s director of Housing and Community Development, told the City Council in a work session briefing that the city’s anti‑displacement work rests on four core strategies: increase supply and choice, preserve existing affordable housing, target public investments to neighborhoods facing development pressure, and strengthen stability and prevention programs.
Sutton said the department produced a housing vulnerability index using American Community Survey and HUD data that groups census tracts into high, moderate and low vulnerability. She said the index is intended as a planning and coordination tool to…
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