More than $1 billion in new economic investment is coming soon to build and preserve affordable housing in North Carolina, according to Chris Austin, Director of Rental Investment for the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. Housing credits were awarded by the NCHFA...
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Voting Rights and Responsibilities: Making Reasoned Choices
by Steven Carr, August 16, 2020 --- “Come now, let us reason together . . .” Isaiah 1:18 (King James Version). In a season of racial unrest and civil rights protests that led to violence and death in American cities, 55 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson came to...
Home Work: Building Affordable Housing in Wake County and North Carolina; Renters at Risk
North Carolina and Wake County are continuing to keep pace and to set the pace of residential real estate development in spite of months of coronavirus pandemic, and we are bucking the reported slowdown of affordable housing construction elsewhere in the United...
Home Work – North Carolina Legislators Addressing Foreclosure, Rental and Utility Emergency Assistance, and Workforce Housing
June 11, 2020 Amid news of more than 1.5 million new jobless claimants in the United States this week filing for unemployment assistance, and word that 20 or more States, including North Carolina, are experiencing a new spike in COVID-19 cases, North Carolina...
Susan Ellinger advises Housing Authorities and Housing Executives
Susan Ellinger will be speaking and leading a housing law presentation on November 15, 2019 in Florence, South Carolina. The Florence meeting is a gathering of the South Carolina Housing Authority Executive Directors. Susan, a lawyer and Ellinger Carr founding...
Practice tips for Housing Authority drug-related evictions
The North Carolina Supreme Court announced its decision on August 19, 2016 in the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority v. Lofton case. This case was appealed by the Housing Authority from the earlier (2014) Court of Appeals decision entered in favor of the...
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