Saturday, April 25, was another turning point for the CACs in Raleigh. For the first time in nearly 10 years, the Raleigh Citizens Advisory Council (RCAC) gathered for a spring retreat, a milestone in our mission to restore and revitalize the partnership between residents and City Hall.
Join us for a community conversation about Affordable Housing
The choice is not between density everywhere anywhere and slow growth. The answer lies in responsible growth.
Highlights from May 5 City Council meetings
Why does “the greater good” so often require loss from the same communities? Why are the people who already rely on transit the ones most at risk of being displaced from it? What does it mean to build a transit corridor that the current riders might no longer be able to afford to live near? if the greater good keeps requiring that the same communities lose everything, perhaps we need to ask ourselves what “good” really means.
Allowing more smaller, affordable units on a lot that would otherwise contain one expensive unit has clearly hit a sweet spot with Portland builders and affordability advocates. Portland’s housing reforms aren’t a silver bullet, but they are a powerful reminder to Raleigh that well-designed policies can produce affordable, human-scaled homes in Raleigh neighborhoods people already love.