The Housing Partnership and Socialserve are working together to administer the COVID-19 emergency housing assistance program for families with a COVID-19-related hardship, including job loss, illness, wage reduction and childcare challenges. The expanded program – RAMP CLT – will continue funding qualifying mortgage and rent payments, with additional assistance for utility (gas/electric) and deposit payments. More…
Grand opening program Thursday at 10 a.m. WHAT: Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing Partnership, Inc. (“DreamKey Partners”) is celebrating the opening of its newest property, The Mulberry Senior Living Apartments, a 104-unit affordable active senior living community located in West Charlotte on Tuckaseegee Road. The new development, which was partially funded by a $300,000 grant from The…
Many people don’t realize that The Housing Partnership is a non-profit that provides a number of community programs including financial literacy, homebuyer education, digital literacy and property tax relief in addition to developing affordable housing.
Dear Friends, Following the Keith Lamont Scott shooting, the City of Charlotte increased its production goals for affordable housing, pledging to provide 5,000 units in three years. To back up that pledge, the City recently approved an extraordinary $20 million in Housing Trust Funds to support new production of 649 units in five developments across…
Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing Partnership, Inc. (“The Housing Partnership”) will dedicate The Stevenson Apartments, a 130-unit affordable rental development in the Brightwalk community.
“Wait, what exactly is it you do again?” was a frequent question I was asked by my new co-workers during my first weeks as a Digital Inclusion Fellow at Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing Partnership (CMHP).
Charlotte resident, Linda Mendez, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership President Julie Porter and City of Charlotte Housing and Neighborhood Services Director Pam Wideman sit down with Around the Crown host Gina DiPietro to discuss the current need in Charlotte for affordable housing, where we are in meeting our target goals and who are the real people in need.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., September 12, 2017 – At a time when Charlotte’s need for affordable housing is so great and the funding to build it is so scarce, a new model to finance its development could be the solution. Local congregation, Covenant Presbyterian Church (“Covenant”), has made a bold move towards redefining how the faith community responds to our City’s housing crisis.
A highly regarded affordable housing property in Charlotte, N.C., is stronger financially after refinancing its debt on a 192-home apartment community and having 20 of its apartments undergo a conversion to the Housing Choice Voucher program under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program. The result for South…
Funds used for blight removal and new home construction in Druid Hills CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 28, 2017 – Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing Partnership, Inc. (DreamKey Partners) has been awarded a $500,000 grant through the nationally-competitive Project Reinvest for Neighborhoods program. A total of $27.5 million in neighborhood stabilization grants were awarded to 55 nonprofit organizations nationwide…