WRAL - Raleigh rezoning several plots of land to make way for affordable housing
Jennifer Truman, who lives in the Dix Edge Area, said her growing family moved to southwest Raleigh six years ago.
She said the area has been neglected for decades.
"There's a lot of need for that change that's been pent up," she said. "We need affordable housing. We need to preserve what’s here, which might be possible, but we also need to build more."
"Everyone is looking at our part of town as being a place of opportunity again, which is good, but it does come with a little bit of fear about how expensive it’s going to be," she said.
Truman believes the city should build more affordable housing because the city has better control of how permanent that housing will be. She says that will serve people who have lived in Raleigh a long time as well as future residents.
