Six Months After Becoming Durham’s Mayor, Steve Schewel Has a Lot to Say
It's been six months since Steve Schewel was sworn in as mayor of Durham, laying out a vision of the Bull City "as a progressive beacon for the South and the nation." In a long, wide-ranging,...
View ArticleDurham Public Performance-Art Project SITES Expands Its Exploration of...
The revamped series begins with a party and performance at Accordion Club on Friday, September 21.
View ArticleIf You Don't Support Old Standbys, Don't Complain that Durham Ain’t What It...
It’s tempting to try a new restaurant every day, but amid the buzz and construction noise, Durham sometimes feels nothing like the place that I first called home sixteen years ago.
View ArticleDurham Belt Line One Step Closer to Reality After Land Purchase
The city has purchased a 1.7-mile-long former railroad corridor it plans to turn into an urban greenway.
View ArticleEpisode 19: Millennials and Methodists Fight Back
Zainab Baloch on the young people who want to run Raleigh, and Durham grapples with adding density near downtown.
View ArticleConnect Raleigh: Community Voices on Gentrification
Panel discussion with Pamela Wideman, Kia Baker, Yvette Holmes, Asa Fleming, Paul Kane, and Kristen Jeffers.
View ArticleBraggtown Fights for Its Life and Soul Against the Forces of Gentrification
“I wonder about a future where no one who makes a certain amount of money gets to live in Durham anymore," one Braggtown resident says.
View ArticleDurham Commissioners Pump the Brakes on Braggtown Developments After Protests...
“These residents aren’t saying ‘no’ to the project. They just want to be part of it.”
View ArticleTo Understand How Gentrification in Durham Works, Just Read the Signs
For all the talk of development and opportunity in Durham, Black residents feel like they're running out of options for affordable housing.
View ArticleBacktalk: Durham's Gentrification Problem Isn't So Cut and Dry
And other things our readers told us this week.
View ArticleNavigating the Hedge Maze of Out-of-State Money that Owns More of Durham Than...
An analysis of property ownership records from the past 20 years shows that Durham's new powerbrokers are increasingly large investment firms based outside of North Carolina, and the city has little...
View ArticleElaine O’Neal Announces She's Running for Mayor of Durham
Retired Durham superior court judge, former law school dean, and racial equity champion Elaine O’Neal is running for mayor.
View ArticleOp-Ed: The City of Raleigh Could Use Short-Term Rentals to Leverage Tourism...
If you follow the contentious debate about affordable housing in Raleigh at all, you know a common refrain is that there is no single answer, but success will require a combination of many different...
View ArticleOp-Ed: In Cities Like Raleigh, Black and Low-Income Residents are Excluded...
The so-called housing crisis is more about who has access to wealth, political influence to redraw district lines, and the power to create an entirely new narrative by picking up where they left off...
View ArticleAs Development Comes to Areas Surrounding Dix Park, Residents and Business...
The neighborhoods surrounding Dorothea Dix Park are some of the last affordable areas in Raleigh.
View ArticleQuickbait: Wake County Property Taxes Have Increased Fastest in Minority...
Property taxes for southeast Raleigh homeowners have shot up 20 percent or more in just a few years.
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