Housing

Engagement Week Events Focus on Affordable Housing and Community

January 14, 2025

Carolina Engagement Week events will be held during the week of February 24-28, 2025. A series of events hosted by Carolina Across 100, the ncIMPACT Initiative, and campus partners will engage attendees in conversations about affordable housing, the importance of community collaboration, and the impact of community-engaged scholarship.

These events are open to the public! Members of the community from across North Carolina are encouraged to attend, along with Carolina students, staff, and faculty. Carolina students interested in participating in the 2025 POV Challenge will get a jumpstart on Engagement Week, with registration and submission deadlines in mid-February. Make plans to join us for one or more of these events!

Make plans to join us for one or more of these events!

Keep Learning

Find more data and resources focused on addressing affordable housing needs in North Carolina communities:

  • Our State, Our Homes (Carolina Across 100) – An 18-month program led by the ncIMPACT Initiative to help communities develop capacity, analyze challenges, and implement strategies to address affordable housing and related issues in North Carolina. This program page includes a list of affordable housing resources offered by the UNC School of Government’s Development Finance Initiative.

  • Housing as a Social Driver of Change (Growing Practical Solutions for NC) – GPSNC’s Managing Disruption Briefing Book presents a framework structured around drivers of change, which are macro-level forces that impact local communities. Drivers of change are organized into four broad, interconnected categories: social, technological, economic, and environmental. Each of the drivers highlighted in the report is presented in a short overview that allows busy decision-makers to quickly understand the key dimensions of these issues.

  • North Carolina’s Housing Shortage (Growing Practical Solutions for NC) – This blog post from the ncIMPACT Initiative outlines challenges, potential responses, and key data related to affordable housing in North Carolina. Learn from an affordable housing effort in Chatham County.

  • Affordable Housing Town Hall (PBS NC and the ncIMPACT Initiative) – Watch this recorded town hall event, hosted at the Union Square Campus in Greensboro. Local leaders join ncIMPACT’s Anita Brown-Graham for a discussion about how communities can collaborate to increase the availability of safe, affordable housing.

  • Affordable Teacher Housing (ncIMPACT Initiative) – This blog post from the ncIMPACT Initiative outlines teacher recruitment challenges related to affordable housing, discusses potential responses, and offers an example of local collaboration leading to affordable teacher housing in Dare County.

  • Missing Middle Model to Ease Housing Shortage in Triangle Region (ncIMPACT Initiative) – This Facts That Matter blog post discusses affordable housing challenges, potential solutions, and examples of efforts to increase “missing middle” housing in the Triangle region.

Carolina Across 100 is a five-year initiative, led by the ncIMPACT Initiative, seeking to support community-driven recovery and build sustainable efforts in all 100 counties by providing human resources, data insights, coaching, facilitation, coordination efforts, and program design. “Our State, Our Homes” is the fifth program in this larger initiative.