[Durham INC] More affordable housing + better quality of life in neighborhoods...

[Frank Hyman]

Hello all. Looking forward to the meeting on 10/25 and  presenting a proposal/receiving questions for increasing affordable housing without relying on tax dollars…and…at the same time improving the quality of life in many of our transit-friendly neighborhoods.

Details in the attachment and text below. 

I would also be willing to meet with any interested neighborhood or other organization. 

Frank Hyman
frankhyman2020 at yahoo.com
www.bluecollarcomeback.com



More Affordable Housing &

Better Quality of Life at

No Cost to Durham Government 

Problem:

Affordable houses and apartments for working class families are becoming scarcer in Durham.

Part of that scarcity is created by about 2000 of Duke’s undergraduate students, who occupy several hundred affordable units in the transit-friendly neighborhoods of Durham.

This problem is aggravated by the fact that a portion of these undergrads are bad actors—late night noise, trash, blocking driveways etc.--who reduce the quality of life of their neighbors. 



Solution:

Duke University builds undergrad housing on the now almost empty Central Campus. The present master plan has no goal for that campus. When that housing becomes available, Duke requires all future undergrads to reside on campus as a contingency of acceptance. Presently, all freshman are already required to live on campus.

 

Result:

The quality of life in all near-Duke neighborhoods improves.

 Several hundred houses, apartments and fixer-uppers become available for Durham’s working families.


Costs:

 

Local government would bear no cost, yet hundreds of housing units would become available.

Duke’s cost for new undergrad housing would be covered by the grants, loans and family money that already covers the rent money that these 2000-ish undergrads already pay for off-campus housing.

 

How Winnable is This Campaign:

Can you imagine Duke successfully objecting that there’s some academic or economic benefit when their undergraduates displace Durham’s working families from affordable housing?

 

Best Time to Start This Campaign:

Right now. 


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