Support Affordable Housing in Downtown Durham
August 14, 2024 
| FPC’s Service and Mission Committee is asking for our congregation to attend the Durham City Council meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 19, to stand in support of affordable housing on the site of the old police building at 505 West Chapel Hill St.
The property, pictured above, is the last large area that the City owns in downtown Durham. Six organizations (CAN, the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Peoples’ Alliance, Coalition for Affordable Housing and Transit, NAACP, and Duke Memorial United Methodist Church) have united to encourage the City to use this land for affordable housing. The City Council voted affordable housing as the # 1 priority for the use of the property. The Council will be voting on Monday, about the selection of the developer and the general plans for the use of the property. The organizations are asking for more affordable housing units than have been proposed and that the City retain ownership of the property rather than sell it to the developer. Those of us who can attend in support of this effort won’t have to speak. We will be there to show a strong, united body of support for this important mission. The Durham City Council meets in Council Chambers at 101 City Hall Plaza (near FPC). Parking is available at FPC. We hope to see you there! FPC’s Service and Mission Committee |