People's Alliance Housing Action Team meets on last Thursdays of the month.
Successes:
People's Alliance believes residents of all incomes should be able to find and keep affordable homes in Durham. We are working with renters and homeowners who want to stay in their homes and neighborhoods. Join us.
"The Big G: Gentrification and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Change": Click here to download presentation materials.
THANKS to Steve Schewel and Diane Catotti who pushed for more time to work on an agreement to keep 15% of homes affordable to working people BEFORE increasing density allowed at a future light rail station. Unfortunately, the rest of City Council did NOT support more time to keep homes affordable long-term.
HOWEVER, Steve Schewel convinced the developer, Rob Everett, to keep rents of 72 homes on the property affordable to people at 60% Area Median Income (around $27,000 to $39,000/year) for ONE year. Everett also agreed to give the City $25,000 to help with a plan to preserve and create affordable homes, AND Diane Catotti got him to agree to give $23,000 to Durham Public Schools. He said he would help with the plan and consider incentives to preserve or create affordable homes himself.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress….Power concedes nothing without a demand." Fredrick Douglass, 1957.