Article: Mayor Upchurch announces roundtable for affordable housing. (Avery C. Upchurch)

MAYOR UPCHURCH ANNOUNCES ROUNDTABLE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- At a morning news conference in downtown Raleigh today, Mayor Avery C. Upchurch announced plans to form a citizen's roundtable which will be responsible for developing a program to use city housing funds to leverage private investments, creating "a substantial war chest which can make a real difference in providing decent housing for all our people."

Indicating that he had already explored several possibilities, Upchurch proposed that a coalition of business and governmental leaders could implement "creative strategies" to stretch taxpayer dollars and ...

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