Charlotte Journalism Collaborative

HIV meds tested against COVID-19

April 29, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, QNotes

Focus on microscope with metal lens for experiments, educational demonstrations in clinical laboratories. Medicine researching concept. Blurred background Mykah Buff April 17, 2020 With more than hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases, the coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) continues spreading across the globe at an alarming rate. In an effort to find a…

City leaders support shipping containers, other affordable housing solutions

April 14, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, WCNC-TV

With COVID-19 costing so many people their jobs, members of the Charlotte City Council expressed support for outside-the-box housing options. By Nate Morabito April 7, 2020 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The coronavirus pandemic is renewing a push for Charlotte to use shipping containers for affordable housing, especially as more and more…

Nashville’s shipping container apartments could be inspiration for Charlotte

February 25, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, WCNC-TV

By Nathan Morabito February 18, 2020 A Nashville developer is using the nation’s surplus of shipping containers to build affordable housing unit and his idea is a possible solution Charlotte might want to consider. Stacked three-high, shipping containers welded to piers now dominate the landscape of Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood just…

Finding Home: Helping Homeless Students By Supporting Their Families

February 25, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative

By David Boraks February 13, 2020 Here’s a No. 1 ranking you don’t want: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leads North Carolina with the largest population of homeless students — more than 4,700 last year. A new program by two Charlotte agencies aims to help some of those students by getting their families…

With Lake Arbor About To Be Sold, Judge Backs Tenants’ Legal Request

February 25, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative

By David Boraks February 13, 2020 All but one tenant has moved out of the run-down Lake Arbor Apartments in west Charlotte after the owners ordered everyone out to make way for renovations. But a legal battle with the landlords continues, and tenants last week won a round — just…

Big Impact with a Small Footprint: Veterans Project Is Building Community While Fighting Homelessness

February 10, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, QNotes

Site of Veterans Community Project, Longmont, Colo. (Photo Credit: Chris Rudisill) By Chris Rudisill FEBRUARY 7, 2020 In the last issue of qnotes, we looked at the Beloved Community Village in Denver, a tiny home village that provides transformational housing for people experiencing homelessness. Our trip out west also took us to…

Big Impact with a Small Footprint

January 30, 2020

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, QNotes

By Chris Rudisill JANUARY 24, 2020 Freddie Martin, someone who is classified as ‘housing insecure,’ calls Beloved Community Village home as he works toward finishing his degree at Metro State University. (Photo Credit: Chris Rudisill) Freddie Martin, a student of history and anthropology, talks to me outside his home in…

Seattle program makes homes affordable in a pricey market. Is it a model for Charlotte?

December 10, 2019

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, The Charlotte Observer, Uncategorized

By Lauren Lindstrom The Charlotte Observer SEATTLE Susan Zeman and Bob Downing immediately found a lot to love about their two-bedroom townhouse in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. They loved that they could stay in the same community where they’d lived for years and formed close ties. She loved that they…

West Charlotte is rapidly gentrifying. How this nonprofit wants to make homes affordable.

December 10, 2019

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, The Charlotte Observer

By Lauren Lindstrom The Charlotte Observer Charis Blackmon doesn’t have to look further than the ground beneath her feet to see change happening in Enderly Park. The West Side Community Land Trust, where Blackmon is executive director, bought the Tuckaseegee Road plot last year for $16,000 as the future site…

Where do you live when you’re gay and gray?

November 20, 2019

Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, QNotes

BY DAVID AARON MOORE JULY 26, 2019 There’s a story I recall as a younger gay man I’ve heard repeated a few times over the years since, in some form or another. Two elderly women, who had shared the same home for most of their adult lives, had begun to…