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Raleigh to hire real estate firm to help build affordable housing :: WRAL.com
By Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter Raleigh, N.C. — The city of Raleigh is browsing for a actual estate brokerage organization to enable obtain sites for reasonably priced housing. Metropolis officials want to use $12 million from an reasonably priced housing bond Raleigh voters authorized past yr to obtain land or present structures for housing. They are hoping to build very affordable housing in the vicinity of general public transit on Western Boulevard, New Bern Avenue, South Saunders Street and Cash Boulevard. At present, about 41{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} of renters and 16{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} of home owners in Wake County are viewed as cost-burdened. That implies 30{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} or a lot more of their budget goes…