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Speak Up to Support More Housing Options: Join our public comment training on July 21st
Why do you care about bringing more housing options to Asheville? What’s your story? And what’s the best way to share that story so it will help bring middle housing…
Why we support spending disaster recovery funds on affordable housing construction
As Asheville City Council debates reallocating Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding from affordable housing construction to home repair, Susan Bean spoke up during the public hearing…
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Block Party Campaign Kick-off Event on June 24th
Our Block Party campaign is spreading the message that more neighbors means more fun in our communities. As the summer begins, that means more folks around for barbeques, bike rides,…
Community Input Needed: Take the Locally Coordinated Plan Survey
We know that in order to meet the challenge of Asheville’s housing crisis, we need more housing options within our cities. Middle housing types like duplexes, townhomes, and ADUs will…
Susan Bean in the Citizen-Times: Asheville Housing Shortage Needs Missing Middle Construction
See the text of Susan’s OpEd below, or read it on the Citizen-Times website here. In January, a young professional attended a networking event in downtown Asheville wearing a sweatshirt…
Meet our new Asheville Housing Organizer
My name is Shea Kinser, and I’m the new Asheville Housing Organizer with MountainTrue. In my role I’ll be educating and mobilizing community members to advocate for housing policy reform…
Increasing ridership is the right goal for Asheville’s bus system
Shifting Asheville’s bus system toward a ridership model, which prioritizes service in higher-density areas, is necessary for making public transit work.
Asheville City Council Makes Big Changes to Support Housing!
Council approved 5 significant changes to Asheville’s development rules on Tuesday, March 11. In addition to supporting the three amendments that make it easier to build housing in commercial districts…