information sources

The report below is the annual 2020 Housing Instability & Homelessness Report which is designed to better equip our community to make data-driven decisions around housing instability and homelessness.

2020 Housing Instability & Homelessness Report

A fact sheet to provide a snapshot of housing instability and homelessness in Charlotte Mecklenburg.

2020-Charlotte-Mecklenburg-Housing-Data-Factsheet

The City of Charlotte has a long-term strategic plan for development (draft as of 10/31/2020)

Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan

 

Books

Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975

by Thomas W. Hanchett

Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte’s whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a “salt-and-pepper” pattern. The rise of manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a “checker-board” of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a “sector” pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.