Property values are soaring in much of the Triangle. That could cost some residents their homes.

Hudson Vaughan, Director of the Community Justice Collaborative at the North Carolina Housing Coalition, talks to Durham residents at the Braggtown Baptist Church in Durham. (Mia Khatib)

 

 

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified Vannessa Mason Evans of the Braggtown Community Association.

Many homeowners in the Triangle’s historically Black neighborhoods are struggling to keep owning their homes. Part of the issue is the property taxes that come with rapidly rising home values. Some Durham residents even saw their home values double from last year.

Carolina Connection’s Mia Khatib talked with them.

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