Your roundup from RaleighForward

Ten articles we found interesting this week:

1. If communities are serious about ending homelessness, they need to be prepared to spend money, time and implement a clear strategy for building more housing. Read more in Vox.

2. When someone mentions a poorly managed apartment community, most people immediately think of a profit-driven corporation or a local slumlord, but this article raises an interesting problem when the landlord is a nonprofit. When a problematic landlord is a nonprofit, from Shelterforce.

3. They Fought the Lawn.  And the Lawn’s Done. Via NYT.

4. Rents in Raleigh increased faster than many cities across the Country according to this report.

5. Here’s an interesting article in the New York Times that discusses the climate impact of neighborhoods across the country.  It has an embedded feature that allows you to examine the impact of your particular neighborhood.  Click here to read the article.

6. Here is a new report issued by the Cato Institute examining the impact of exclusionary zoning on housing affordability in North Carolina.

7. The Cato Institute joined with North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation last week for a panel called Keeping Housing Affordable in North Carolina. You can watch the livestream replay here.

8. This article discusses the reasons and potential solutions for the housing crisis that is gripping nearly every major metropolitan area across America. We’ve been digging ourselves into this [homeless] situation for 40 years, and it’s likely going to take 40 years to get out, via The Atlantic.

9. Raleigh housing market ranked #2 by the National Realtors for 2023.  This likely means continued pressure on affordability. Read the report.

10. Here is another report that supports the premise that exclusionary zoning is restricting development and causing rents to rise: How suburban zoning rules are stifling development and causing rents to spike, from PBS News Hour.

Here is what we will be watching this week:

The Mayor announced the new Council Committee assignments during its December 13, 2022, Work Session. Here they are:

• Growth & Natural Resources: Jane Harrison (Chair), Corey Branch, Megan Patton, and Mary Black

• Economic Development & Innovation: Jonathan Melton (Chair), Mary-Ann Baldwin (Vice Chair), Stormie Forte, and Mary Black

• Transit & Transportation: Corey Branch (Chair), Jonathan Melton (Vice Chair), Jane Harrison, and Christina Jones

• Safe, Vibrant & Healthy Communities: Mary-Ann Baldwin (Chair), Storme Forte (Vice Chair), Megan Patton, and Christina Jones

The City launched a new fast track approval process for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). For more information, click here.

With the recent controversy surrounding the City’s Missing Middle regulatory reform efforts, staff has scheduled various meetings and workshops starting in January to inform residents about how these reforms fit into the City’s overall effort to provide more housing choices and opportunities to all Raleigh residents. If you are interested in learning more or participating, you can find additional information here. The first meeting in the series is scheduled for January 11 from 6-8:00pm at Durant Nature Preserve.

There are no City Council or Committee meetings this week due to the holidays. The next City Council meeting will be January 3, 2023.

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