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Fewer Affordable Rental Units in Mecklenburg County
Even with assistance, in Mecklenburg County there are only 15 affordable rental units for every 100 extremely low income families.This according to a study by the Urban Institute using data from from...
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143 Days to House 200 Homeless Vets
Last November the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County announced an audacious goal of ending Veteran homelessness in our community by the end of 2015. As of this month, the coalition working to...
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Guest Blog: Providence HS Student Clay Sellers
Our guest blogger, Providence HS student Clay Sellers Hello, my name is Clay Sellers. This year, I will be a senior at Providence High School in South Charlotte. As part of a senior exit project, I...
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Father and Children Avoid Homelessness
“Abuse isn’t gender specific. It’s a heart and soul problem, not a gender problem.” For nearly fifteen years Ken tried to fix the problems with his wife. Increasingly, Ken found himself wondering if...
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Three Years Later
In 2011 LaTanya and Donald were working hard, paying their mortgage, and looking forward to their son’s high school graduation in a couple of years. There wasn’t much left over once all the bills were...
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After 17 years in prison he was facing homelessness. Today he’s planning to...
Recently we followed up with a customer from 2012. Parris grew up in Charlotte, under difficult circumstances. His dad was out of the picture early, and his mother struggled with addiction. He got...
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Art and Housing Help This Disabled Veteran
Dennis with his best friend from the Navy. The two remain close friends. It took more than twenty years for Dennis, a Navy veteran and father, to finally solve the mystery of his debilitating illness....
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One Year Later: Don’t Be Afraid to Dream
In 2013 Rudy and Marlyne were both pretty much out of options. Marlyne and her two children, aged five and six, had been chronically homeless for several years. The Florida family had stayed in...
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Raising kids is hard. Raising them living in a car is harder.
As the holidays approached a few years ago, Felicia was eight months pregnant and living in her car with her two boys, ages three and four. The family became homeless when she was forced out of her...
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Landlords: Essential Partners in Fighting Homelessness
Written by Community Link intern Blake Allen Every year Community Link houses thousands of homeless people in Charlotte and around our region. We couldn’t do it, however, without the hundreds of...
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At Seventy She is a First-Time Homeowner
No one in Luella Crosby’s family had ever owned a home. From the day she was born seventy years ago up until now she has lived in countless rental homes in Charlotte. The Charlotte native has...
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Foreclosure activity is down in our region, but still higher than historic levels. The March 2016 foreclosure rate was 0.71 percent in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia MSA, 0.46 percent in the...
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Andrea and Luis save their home from foreclosure
Andrea and Luis came to the US from Venezuela twelve years ago, and have lived in Charlotte for eight years. They’ve worked hard to build a life for themselves. Luis works in a factory, and Andrea has...
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Making a Change for His Grandkids
Archie with Tamatha (right), his social worker, and Madeline, his housing counselor.Addicted to drugs, and with a criminal record two inches thick, 51-year-old Lucas seemed like a hopeless case. “I...
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Formerly Homeless Veteran Selected to Receive a Car
Most of us take transportation and housing for granted. But for the people we serve in our Homeless to Housing program, routine activities like going to work, buying groceries, or visiting a doctor...
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Guest Blog: Providence HS Student Clay Sellers
Our guest blogger, Providence HS student Clay Sellers Hello, my name is Clay Sellers. This year, I will be a senior at Providence High School in South Charlotte. As part of a senior exit project, I...
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Five Years Later and Still Housed
LaTanya and Donald Visiting LaTanya and Donald in their tidy north Charlotte home, it’s hard to believe that a few short years ago the couple, along with their teenage son, were living out of their...
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Which Age Group Has Seen the Biggest Drop in Homeownership?
photo credit: the London Evening StandardHint: it’s not the millenials. Homeownership levels are currently at 20-year lows, last year at just about 64%. You’ll frequently hear that this is largely...
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Housing the Toughest Cases
Community Link social worker Shurna. Shurna, a social worker working at Community Link for almost a year now, always knew she wanted to be a social worker. “I remember reading a book in school when I...
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Marine Veteran’s Widow Keeps Her Home
Verda holds a childhood photo of her late husband, Sonny. Two weeks after his cancer diagnosis Sonny, a Marine veteran from the Vietnam era, pulled out his billfold to show his wife Verda a few...
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