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What Is Greensboro Doing To Expand Affordable Housing?

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,
Amanda Magnus
Published June 11, 2019 at 12:29 PM EDT
The front entrance to Apartment G at the Summit-Cone apartment complex, where a deadly fire killed five young refugee children. This fire laid bare housing issues in Greensboro.
The front entrance to Apartment G at the Summit-Cone apartment complex, where a deadly fire killed five young refugee children. This fire laid bare housing issues in Greensboro.

This summer the city of Greensboro plans to sue the 10 landlords with the highest number of housing code violations. These companies have racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines owed to the city. Host Frank Stasio talks to Greensboro News & Record city government reporter Richard Barron about affordable housing in Greensboro.

This action is one attempt to address Greensboro’s affordable housing problem, which Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan calls the city’s No. 1 crisis. Researchers estimate that there are about 26,000 people living in the city who pay more than 30 percent of their monthly salary for rent, which is where experts draw the line for those who are considered “rent-burdened.” 

Host Frank Stasio talks to Richard Barron, News & Record city government reporter, about the housing landscape in Greensboro, what measures the city has taken and what solutions are being discussed by community leaders.

 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Amanda Magnus
Amanda Magnus grew up in Maryland and went to high school in Baltimore. She became interested in radio after an elective course in the NYU journalism department. She got her start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio, but she knew public radio was for her when she interned at WNYC. She later moved to Madison, where she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for six years. In her time there, she helped create an afternoon drive news magazine show, called Central Time. She also produced several series, including one on Native American life in Wisconsin. She spends her free time running, hiking, and roller skating. She also loves scary movies.
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