Anti-renter bias in Chapel Hill
Below, a letter reprinted from one of Triangle Blog Blog’s contributors to the Chapel Hill Town Council. Dear Town Council Members, I would like to thank you, and your predecessors, for allowing my home to be built in the Blue Hill district. On a graduate student stipend, I am able to live within a ten […]
Mr. Sun Sun, Mr. Purple Sun – please shine down on me
We are among the biggest fans of Purple Bowl. One of the blog blogging households is one of their biggest customers, and is grateful for their variety of delicious lunches and smoothies that were served to hospital employees during the pandemic. To say we love Purple Bowl would be an understatement — we spend a […]
All of the numbers that matter about housing in Chapel Hill
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. Here are all the numbers that I think matter about housing in Chapel Hill: In 2021, Council received a report estimating that we need ~485 units per year every year between 2020 and 2040 in order to keep the current jobs/housing ratio: 440 of those are […]