Livable Raleigh
Livable Raleigh is a diverse group of your neighbors who love our city as you do, and who care about quality of life for every resident and all of our neighborhoods. We believe healthy, vibrant neighborhoods are the essential building blocks for Raleigh to be both bigger and better in the future. As we grow, we should lead the nation in equitable and sustainable development practices.
We therefore advocate that our growth be managed to achieve the following goals:
The Latest
Nicole Stewart Wants to Hear the ‘Right’ Voices
Nicole Stewart consistently uses coded language such as ‘right-sizing’ voices to find ‘the right voices’. Her code words sound vaguely progressive, but her motive is not to expand and empower all voices, but to conceal and distract from her real political motive: to silence voices she doesn’t agree with.
Process to fill vacant City Council seat: is it transparent or inclusive?
Mayor Baldwin said she wanted a “transparent and inclusive” process. That statement sounds like something everyone would welcome but the devil is in the details (see summary and timeline below).
Please Sign the Petition: Ask Council to Appoint Kay Crowder to Fill the District D Vacancy
We urge Mayor Baldwin and the City Council to appoint Kay Crowder and restore to District D the outstanding representation for which our community previously was known.
Follow the Money
As a follow-up to Livable Raleigh’s previous blog, “Show Me the Money”, about the development community money spent in the 2019 City Council election, this time we look at the specifics for individual Councilors.
Raleigh’s Affordable Housing Bond: No Commitments = No Accountability
A comparison of Durham’s successful $95M Affordable Housing Bond in 2019 with Raleigh’s proposed 2020 Bond reveals stark differences: Unlike Durham’s precise commitments, Raleigh’s bond lacks details required for accountability and for judging if the spending will address Raleigh’s most pressing needs.
Whenever Mary-Ann Baldwin calls for ‘flexibility’, she always wants a backroom deal.
When Mary-Ann Baldwin recently called for “flexibility” in spending Raleigh’s proposed Affordable Housing Bond funds, what she really wants are fewer constraints on how the money will be spent, thereby creating more opportunities to parley taxpayer-funded development deals with supplicants in Barnhill’s back office.