Jennifer Player of Orange Habitat for Humanity joins Aaron to discuss Auman Village, a new Habitat community in Hillsborough that just broke ground this month. When it’s done, Auman Village will feature 75 new homes, most of them dedicated to first-time homebuyers making 30-80 percent of the area median income (AMI). In a first for Habitat, they’re also building market-rate homes to sell to residents making closer to 100 percent of AMI – partly to make the project financially feasible, but also because AMI-earning residents are also facing a shortage of local housing they can afford. (Habitat’s Weavers Grove development in Chapel Hill also has market-rate housing units, but they were built by a different developer; this will be the first time Habitat does the building themselves.)
97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
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