If you weren’t able to attend our Community Conversation on November 16, 2023 for the discussion of Raleigh’s BRT Promises, the video and slides are now available on our “Community Conversations” page where you can find all of our previous events as well.
Don’t Break Raleigh’s Transit Promises
If their egregious zoning case, Z-92-22, gets a positive vote from City Council, it will usher in the worst kind of Urban Renewal. Affordable homes will be scraped off, to be replaced by luxury apartment buildings that only the affluent can afford to live in. Picture a stretched-out North Hills, replete with restaurants and bars – and parking decks – but with no room for the working-class.
Event Materials Published – What’s Next for Democracy in Raleigh?
If you weren't able to attend our Community Conversation on March 4, 2023 for the discussion of Democracy in Raleigh, the video, slides and Q&A are now available on our "Community Conversations" page where you can find all of our previous events as well. Hear from...
What’s Next for Democracy in Raleigh?
A virtual Community Conversation discussing Raleigh's City Council election process and proposals to make it better. Join Livable Raleigh Saturday, March 4th at 10am for a Virtual Community Meeting to discuss changes that can be made to make Raleigh City Council...
Bob Hall Comments on Raleigh City Council’s Abuse of Democracy
For more than 50 years, Bob Hall has been North Carolina's foremost advocate for the idea that government should be for the people, ALL the people and not for the corporations and the wealthy. Below are excerpts of what Bob had to say when he spoke at Livable...
Carmen Cauthen’s “History of Housing in Raleigh” is context for tomorrow night’s “Affordable Housing Bond: The Great Debate”
After 1916, Oberlin Village was a textbook case of white gentrification of a formerly black community. Dial ahead 100 years: The gentrification of formerly all-black Southeast Raleigh is history repeating itself.
Feedback From an Attendee of our Affordable Housing Bond Webinar
I attended Livable Raleigh’s recent webinar on Raleigh’s 2020 Affordable Housing Bond to educate myself on our city’s affordable housing needs and the upcoming $80 million bond package that will be on the November 3rd ballot. Admittedly, housing is not my area of...
Dear Mayor and Council: Your Time Is Running Out to Fix the 2020 Affordable Housing Bond Proposal
Unless you act, voters will be forced to guess what the bond is for, because you will have failed to tell them. Specifically, how will the $80 million help Raleigh residents with the greatest need for safe, affordable housing?