• City of Charlotte Housing & Neighborhood Services
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing and Homeless Dashboard
• North Carolina Housing Search
• Community Link helps individuals and families obtain and sustain safe, decent and affordable housing. We serve people from homeless to home ownership, every step of the way.
• DreamKey Partners helps you make informed decisions as you purchase or rent affordable housing in the Charlotte, NC area.

Currently being updated to represent more organizations and resources. Contact director@charlottejournalism.org for more information.

• Housing & Homelessness Dashboard
  • The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing & Homelessness Dashboard has four main goals:
    1. To promote awareness and understanding about housing instability, homelessness and affordable housing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
    2. To increase data literacy among all community stakeholders
    3. To create a one-stop-resource for housing instability, homelessness and affordable housing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
    4. To strengthen effectiveness and efficiency of the housing and homelessness system through the use of data and research
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg 2021 State of Housing Instability & Homelessness Report
• Housing & Neighborhood Services
  • In 2018, the Charlotte City Council approved the Housing Charlotte Framework. The Framework establishes a collaborative effort among the City of Charlotte and other community partners for the allocation of private and public resources to guide the City’s affordable housing investments, policies, processes, and related decisions.
• H​ousing Advisory Board of Charlotte​-Mecklenburg
  • The Housing Advisory Board educates, advocates, engages, and partners with community stakeholders to prevent and end homelessness and ensure a sufficient supply of affordable housing throughout Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
• North Carolina Housing Coalition
  • Ensuring that every North Carolinian has a home in which to live with dignity and opportunity.
• Housing Instability in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (2015)
• Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing City Of Charlotte (2010)
• Affordable Housing Presentation (2017)
• Liveable Meck Progress Report (2018)
• Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing (2018)
• Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing in NC (2019)
  • Out of Reach: Data Sources and Definitions (2019)
• Housing Charlotte: A Framework for Building and Expanding Access to Opportunity
  through Housing Investments (2018)
• Annual Action Plan (2018)
  • The City of Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Regional Housing Consortium’s Annual Action Plan
    identifies the City’s community development needs and outlines a comprehensive and coordinated
    strategy for addressing these needs.
• Annual Action Plan [Draft] (2019)
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Shelter System: Assessment of Capacity & Utilization (2019)
  • System Solutions Handout (2019)

Case Study: Collaborative Journalism in Service of Community

How the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative shifted the conversation on the city’s affordable housing problem and continues to seek solutions. Read more. 

Collaborative Case Study II: The Charlotte Journalism Collaborative

To meet the needs of its community during the coronavirus pandemic, a nine-member local news collaborative in North Carolina has hosted virtual town halls and catalyzed new Spanish-language resourced. Read more. 

Nine local partners in Charlotte form a new reporting collaborative, with Solutions Journalism Network and the Knight Foundation

“Gone are the days when a single news organization had the resources to dominate local news coverage, or when multiple news organizations would enter fierce competition to ‘win’ on the same local story.” Read more.