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As teachers, cooks, cashiers, and bus drivers are being priced out of Charlotte, one question looms: How does a growing, thriving city in modern America keep housing affordable for its working-class citizens? By RACHEL JONES Published: 2017.08.23 06:21 AM Jacqueline Ingram (middle) works full-time at the Ross Dress For Less distribution center in Rock Hill. But in this booming region, her salary isn’t enough to comfortably buy a home for her and her kids, 12-year-old Nya and five-year-old Rejonee. PHOTOS BY ANDY MCMILLAN ONE RECENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON , Jacqueline Ingram and her two daughters explore an empty four-bedroom house for sale on a Brianna Way cul-de-sac in southwest Charlotte , filling it with their dreams along the way. “This one is mine,” 12-year-old Nya says of an upstairs bedroom with a view of the Clanton Park neighborhood . “I could put my chest over there, and my table there.” As five-year-old Rejonee sprawls out on the carpet in the room across the hall, In...

Dream Development won attention — and the right to develop a city-owned parcel — thanks to its innovative housing design . The newly-formed, black- owned development team beat out nearly a half-dozen competitors for the opportunity to build on 24 Westminster Avenue in Roxbury. One compelling feature that helped turn the tides in Dream Development ’s favor is that the design plan is suited to accommodate changing family sizes , giving residents the ability to reconfigure their units as they have children, and reconfigure again once the children leave the nest or should older in-laws wish to move in. The team’s design is also easily shrinkable or scalable, allowing it to be replicated on parcels of varying sizes. A jury of community members, architects, contractors, city planners and other officials selected Dream Development as the winner of its first-ever Housing Innovation Competition , which is aimed at pioneering ways of reducing building costs to make more units of housing avai...

Take a walk east from the gold-plated cupola of San Francisco City Hall and the landscape transforms into the Tenderloin, a patchwork of residential hotels, small delis and social service clinics that cater to the poor. It winds into the city’s main tourist corridor , and, farther along, a glossy cluster of condominium towers where upper- story penthouses cost millions . These symbols of extreme poverty and prosperity are wedged together in District Six, which serves both as a portal for visitors and a cauldron where San Francisco ’s most pressing political issues simmer . For 20 years, District Six voters have reliably concluded that the solutions to those issues come from the progressive viewpoint. And while it’s more than a year until the next election for supervisor, the contest is already shaping up as a test of whether that is still true. From the Tenderloin to the Mission Bay waterfront , District Six has seen a rush of development over the past two decades, and residents are ...

Building and side lot with big tree at 1741 N. Western Ave. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Alisa Hauser BUCKTOWN  — A developer wants to bring a 37- unit apartment building to the Bucktown and Wicker Park border , just south of where the 606's elevated Bloomingdale Trail crosses Western Avenue and less than two blocks from the CTA Blue Line Western station . Michael Lerner, founder of MCZ Development, has requested a new zoning designation to allow for the five-story building at 1737-1741 N. Western Ave., city records show . Introduced in July, the zoning request was referred to the city's committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards but no action has been taken. "It's still under review and we are working out some of the details on exactly how many units and how big they should be. It's still a work in progress," Paul Sajovec, chief of staff to 32nd Ward Ald. Scott Waguespack, said on Tuesday. Lerner is proposing to replace the vintage building at 1...

No matter how much some people wish, Bend is not going to freeze in time. It’s going to grow. The question is: How should it grow? Some of the policies the city is considering to increase the supply of housing are better than others. The goal of this new policy batch is to create more of what’s called middle-market housing. That’s housing affordable to middle-income people. It could be in the gap between apartment buildings and single-family homes. Think townhomes, multiplexes or even single-family homes that are relatively small. Bend 2030, a local nonprofit, facilitated a series of meetings to come up with options. One promising idea is allowing fourplexes in Bend’s standard residential zone . The city already allows duplexes and triplexes. Of course, fourplexes do have social costs. They increase density. They may alter the character of a neighborhood. They can create more parking problems on city streets. But it does seem a reasonable possible change. Another promising idea is to a...

The Exchange KTGY Architecture + Planning have unveiled the preliminary design for The Exchange, a new mixed-use development by The Domain Cos. and the GIV Group that hopes to revitalize downtown Salt Lake City . The $ 110 million development represents The Domain’s first foray into the Salt Lake City multifamily market and is expected to break ground in fall 2018. The design envisions a pedestrian- and transit-oriented district that features affordable and market-rate apartments, business incubator space , creative office space and ground-level retail and restaurant space. Out with the old Located at 320 E. 400 S. and 338 E. 400 S., on two city-owned, 2.2-acre sites, the project is intended to replace three under-used retail and commercial buildings with nine stories of residential, retail and co-working spaces. The parcels include the old five- story Barnes Bank building and the two- story Salt Lake Roasting Co., directly north and east of the city’s public safety building , and...

A proposed 276- unit apartment complex set to go on the southwest corner of Airport Road and Clover Basin Drive has surrounding Longmont homeowners worried about their home values as well as traffic and space for schoolchildren. The Renaissance Village apartment complex , being developed by Longmont- based company Actis LLC , would be housed in 16 three- story buildings spread over roughly 21 acres. The complex would feature a clubhouse, pool, pocket parks and pavilion, according to plans submitted to the city. There have been two neighborhood meetings between the developer and the community and the project will be on a planning and zoning committee meeting agenda once the city planning department staff completes its review. Kirk Christoffersen, a Clover Creek HOA board member , said the meetings did not go well at all and the community doesn't feel the developer is listening to them or responding to homeowner concerns. Richard Groves, with Actis LLC, did not return calls se...

Brian Benson Daily News Staff @bbensonMWDN NATICK - Another housing development could be coming to Speen Street to the north of Rte. 9. Developer Josh Katzen of Cloverleaf Mall and Cloverleaf Apartments is eyeing building about 125 apartments in the same area off Speen Street. The Cloverleaf West Apartments would be built under Chapter 40B and include affordable units . It would be a 10-story building like the existing apartments, Katzen said. "We’re at the very early stages," Katzen told the Planning Board recently . The Massachusetts Housing Partnership needs to sign off before it would go before the Natick Zoning Board of Appeals, he said. Chapter 40B is designed to spur the creation of affordable housing . Because Natick is above a state requirement for affordable housing units , a developer who proposes a Chapter 40B project loses an opportunity to appeal a zoning board decision to the state Housing Appeals Committee . But the zoning board can still consider 40...