GAP Report for 6/1/26
URGENT
- 0 Items
PROBLEMATIC
- Buncombe County’s housing investments need an anti-displacement strategy (new)
QUESTIONABLE
- Asheville should support both affordable housing construction and home repair (new)
POSITIVE
- 0 Items
REPORT BACKS
- Asheville should shift public safety funding toward prevention and community stability instead of continued expansion of expensive reactive policing systems (Unresolved)
Summary of the Report
This week, leaders in both Buncombe County and Asheville are making decisions that will shape the future of housing and displacement in our community.
New Issue: Buncombe County’s housing investments need an anti-displacement strategy
On Tuesday, the Buncombe County Commission will consider a proposed $40 million housing bond and adopt its FY27 budget. Both actions reflect growing recognition that housing affordability is one of the most urgent challenges facing our region. At the same time, the County continues to make major housing and spending decisions without a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy to guide those investments.
New Issue: Asheville should support both affordable housing construction and home repair
On Wednesday, Asheville’s Housing Recovery Board will consider a proposal to shift disaster recovery funds away from affordable rental housing construction and toward single-family home repair and reconstruction. This is a preliminary step before City Council will hear the issue on June 23rd. We believe Asheville should support homeowners recovering from Hurricane Helene while also preserving its commitment to deeply affordable housing. The choice should not be between helping homeowners rebuild and creating homes for families who cannot currently afford to live here. The good news is that there are smart ways to do both.
Report Back: Asheville should shift public safety funding toward prevention and community stability instead of expanding expensive reactive policing systems
Last week, we advocated for Asheville to reconsider its budget priorities – instead of adding more officers and continuing to invest in surveillance, we suggested serious investment in Community Violence Intervention techniques that have a powerful track record of being more cost effective and getting better results.
There was no discussion of this proposal at the meeting, nor any substantive response from most of City Council — Council Members Hess and Roney did respond to GAP Supporter emails indicating agreement with our position. City Council will vote on the budget at their next meeting on June 9th, so this is still an active call to action. See our template below.
Templates and Links to More Information
- Sign up to join us next Tuesday, June 2, at 5 pm to make a public comment and/or send an email to the the Buncombe County Commission urging the County to develop an overarching anti-displacement strategy.
- Email the Asheville Housing Recovery Board and City Council to encourage them to consider a strategy to fund both multifamily affordable housing construction and single-family home repairs.
- Email the Asheville City Council about revising their budget to emphasize violence prevention.
Buncombe County’s housing investments need an anti-displacement strategy
PROBLEMATIC
Summary: Buncombe County is considering a $40 million housing bond and adopting its FY27 budget, but continues to make major housing and spending decisions without a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy. We support the County’s continued investments in affordable housing, but urge the Commission to maximize the impact of these funds by adopting a framework that identifies residents most vulnerable to displacement and guides public investments accordingly.
The facts: On Tuesday, June 2, the Buncombe County Commission will consider two significant housing-related actions.
First, the Commission will move forward with a proposed bond referendum that would allow voters to decide whether to authorize $40 million in housing bonds. County staff have indicated that previously approved affordable housing bond funds have already been committed and that significant housing needs remain.
Second, the Commission is scheduled to adopt its FY27 budget. The budget includes funding for affordable housing and other community investments intended to address local needs.
Taken together, these actions demonstrate that Buncombe County recognizes housing affordability and housing stability as major community concerns. You can see the presentation slides for the housing bond here. You can read the latest County Budget in Brief draft here.
Our Assessment: We support increased investments in housing and community well-being. The proposed housing bond and housing-related budget investments are important steps forward.
At the same time, Buncombe County continues to make major decisions about housing, economic development, public safety, transportation, and disaster recovery without a formal anti-displacement framework. Without one, the County lacks a consistent way to identify where displacement pressures are greatest, evaluate the impacts of public decisions, and ensure resources are reaching the people and neighborhoods most at risk.
The result is not necessarily bad policy. The result is missed opportunities. Public investments can accomplish more when they are guided by data and analysis about who is being displaced, where displacement is occurring, and what interventions are most effective at helping residents remain in their homes and communities.
We have raised this issue on 27 separate occasions in the past six months, but have yet to see it discussed at a County Commission meeting or otherwise given serious consideration by County leaders.
Our Proposal: We continue to call on Buncombe County to adopt a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy. Such a strategy would identify neighborhoods experiencing displacement pressure, track housing stability indicators, evaluate major policy decisions through an anti-displacement lens, and align public investments with the goal of helping residents remain in place. An anti-displacement strategy would not replace investments like the housing bond or affordable housing funding. It would strengthen them by helping ensure those resources are targeted where they can do the greatest good.
Read our proposal here.
Things to do: Send an email to the County Commission and sign up to join us in making a public comment on June 2. Ask County leaders to pair housing investments with a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy.
Email Template: You can send an email to the Buncombe County Commission by filling out the form below. Our email tool will send an individually addressed email to the recipients, and enable us to track how many emails were sent overall in the campaign. If you prefer to write your own email, you can copy and paste (and adapt) our template text – please cc: or bcc: info@gapavl.org on your individualized email, so we can better track how many emails were sent.
Important: If you receive a response to your email, please forward it to us at info@gapavl.org so we can reflect that in the report back.
To: alfred.whitesides@buncombecounty.org, amanda.edwards@buncombecounty.org, drew.ball@buncombecounty.org, jennifer.horton@buncombecounty.org, martin.moore@buncombecounty.org, parker.sloan@buncombecounty.org, terri.wells@buncombecounty.org
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Subject: Pair housing investments with an anti-displacement strategy
Dear Commissioners,
I appreciate Buncombe County’s continued investments in affordable housing, including the proposed housing bond and housing-related funding in the FY27 budget.
As the County continues addressing housing affordability, I encourage you to adopt a formal anti-displacement strategy that can help guide future decisions and ensure public investments have the greatest possible impact. Housing investments are most effective when they are informed by data about who is most vulnerable to displacement and where intervention is most needed.
Please continue investing in housing while also developing a countywide anti-displacement framework to help residents remain in their homes and communities.
Thank you for your service.
Suggested Public Comment Talking Points
You do not need to cover all of these points. Pick one or two that resonate with you and speak from your own experience, sharing how this issue affects you and people that you care about.
Option 1: Support the housing bond and ask for an anti-displacement strategy
I support the proposed housing bond and appreciate the County’s commitment to investing in affordable housing.
At the same time, I encourage the County to develop a formal anti-displacement strategy so that future housing investments are guided by data about where displacement is occurring and who is most at risk. The housing bond will have the greatest impact if it is part of a broader plan to help residents remain in their homes and communities.
Option 2: Ask how the County measures success
The County is making significant investments in housing and community well-being. How will we know whether those investments are helping residents stay in Buncombe County?
I encourage the County to develop measurable anti-displacement goals and track indicators such as housing stability, eviction rates, displacement pressures, and access to affordable housing so that public investments can be evaluated based on outcomes.
Option 3: Connect displacement to community stability
When longtime residents are priced out of their neighborhoods, we lose community connections, support networks, and local knowledge.
I encourage Buncombe County to adopt an anti-displacement framework that recognizes housing stability as an essential part of community health, economic mobility, and public safety.
Option 4: Ask for a countywide approach
Housing investments are important, but displacement is influenced by many different decisions, including transportation, economic development, disaster recovery, public safety, and land use.
I encourage the County to evaluate major policy decisions through an anti-displacement lens so that departments are working toward shared goals rather than addressing housing challenges in isolation.
Closing Statement
I appreciate the County’s investments in housing and community services. My request is simple: pair those investments with a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy so that public dollars can have the greatest possible impact for the people most at risk of being pushed out of our community.
REPORT BACK STATUS
Unresolved
Report Back
Coming Soon!
Asheville should support both affordable housing construction and home repair
QUESTIONABLE
Summary: The Asheville Housing Recovery Board is considering a proposal to shift $19.2 million in disaster recovery funding away from affordable housing construction and toward single-family home repair and reconstruction. We support helping homeowners recover from Hurricane Helene, but we do not believe the City should do so by sacrificing hundreds of affordable housing opportunities. Asheville should – and can – pursue both goals.
The Facts: On Wednesday, June 3, the Housing Recovery Board will consider a proposed amendment to Asheville’s CDBG-DR Action Plan.
The City’s original recovery plan allocated:
- $28 million for affordable multifamily housing construction.
- $3 million for single-family home repair and reconstruction.
City staff are now proposing to:
- Move $9.2 million from the affordable multifamily housing program.
- Move $10 million from infrastructure funding.
- Increase the single-family repair and reconstruction program from $3 million to $22.2 million.
According to City staff, the current allocation is expected to serve approximately 8 households through home reconstruction, while the proposed amendment would serve approximately 60 households. Staff estimate that maintaining the current multifamily allocation would support roughly 600 affordable housing units, while the proposed amendment would reduce that number to approximately 400.
The City notes that multifamily housing maximizes the number of households served and creates long-term affordability, while single-family repair prevents displacement and preserves generational wealth.
You can see the presentation slides that will be shared at the meeting here.
Our Assessment: We agree with City staff that homeowners affected by Hurricane Helene need help rebuilding their homes.
We also agree with the many housing advocates, nonprofit leaders, and affordable housing providers who have warned that reducing affordable housing investments would be a serious mistake. (Many of them are quoted in this Asheville Watchdog article.) Asheville is experiencing a housing crisis that predates Hurricane Helene and continues today. Hundreds of low-income renters remain unable to find housing they can afford.
The proposed amendment would help additional homeowners, but it would do so by reducing the City’s ability to create affordable rental housing that could serve hundreds of households for decades to come.
This is a false choice. Asheville should not have to choose between existing homeowners and future affordable housing residents.
We have discussed this issue in several past GAP Reports:
Our Proposal: We encourage the Housing Recovery Board and City Council to reject the amendment in its current form and pursue a solution that supports both home repair and affordable housing construction.
The City should preserve its commitment to affordable multifamily housing while identifying additional resources to address home repair and reconstruction needs. One potential source is local housing bond funding, which could be used to help homeowners recover without sacrificing affordable housing opportunities created through disaster recovery funds.
Asheville has an opportunity to demonstrate that recovery can both preserve existing communities and create new affordable housing opportunities. We should not pit one goal against the other.
Things to do: Submit a public comment to the Housing Recovery Board and City Council urging them to revise the proposal so Asheville can support both affordable housing construction and home repair.
Email Template: You can send a public comment email to the members of the Asheville Housing Recovery Board and City Council by filling out the form below. Our email tool will send an individually addressed email to the recipients, and enable us to track how many emails were sent overall in the campaign. If you prefer to write your own email, you can copy and paste (and adapt) our template text – please cc: or bcc: info@gapavl.org on your individualized email, so we can better track how many emails were sent.
Important: If you receive a response to your email, please forward it to us at info@gapavl.org so we can reflect that in the report back.
To: housingrecoveryboard@publicinput.com, AshevilleNCCouncil@ashevillenc.gov
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Subject: Support both affordable housing and home repair
Dear Housing Recovery Board Members and City Council Members,
I support helping homeowners recover from Hurricane Helene, and I appreciate the City’s efforts to address those needs.
However, I am concerned about the proposal to reduce funding for affordable multifamily housing in order to expand the single-family repair program. Asheville needs both affordable rental housing and assistance for homeowners who are struggling to rebuild.
The good news is that we can do both: we can use the federal CDBG-DR funds to focus on multifamily affordable housing, and use other funding (such as the housing bond) to support home repair and reconstruction by local builders such as ARCHR. By using locally controlled funding, work on those single-family houses could begin much more quickly and reach more homeowners. Recovery funding should help us build a more resilient and affordable community, not force an unnecessary choice between two important priorities.
Thank you for your consideration.
REPORT BACK STATUS
Unresolved
Report Back
Coming Soon!
Asheville should shift public safety funding toward prevention and community stability instead of expanding expensive reactive policing systems
PROBLEMATIC
Summary (updated 6/1/26): Last week, we advocated for Asheville to reconsider its budget priorities – instead of adding more officers and continuing to invest in surveillance, we suggested serious investment in Community Violence Intervention techniques that have a powerful track record of being more cost effective and getting better results. There was no discussion of this proposal at the meeting, nor any substantive response from most of City Council — Council Members Hess and Roney did respond to GAP Supporter emails indicating agreement with our position. City Council will vote on the budget at their next meeting on June 9th, so this is still an active call to action. See our template below.
Original Summary: Asheville’s proposed FY2027 budget continues expanding policing and surveillance infrastructure while considering reductions to community resources like recreation center hours, despite growing evidence that prevention-oriented strategies may reduce violence more effectively and at a significantly lower cost.
The Facts: The City of Asheville is currently considering a FY2027 budget that includes continued allocation of resources toward policing technology, surveillance infrastructure, and staffing growth tied to the City’s developing Real-Time Intelligence Center (RTIC). At the same time, the City is considering reductions to community center operating hours amid broader budget pressures.
You can read the latest City budget draft here.
Our Assessment: The current budget approach places greater emphasis on reactive systems — surveillance, technology expansion, and long-term policing obligations — than on the community conditions that may help prevent violence in the first place.
The proposed reduction in community center hours is especially concerning because these facilities provide more than recreation. They create safe gathering spaces, youth engagement opportunities, and neighborhood stability. Research demonstrates that these are conditions that actually contribute to public safety. Meanwhile, evidence that surveillance expansion and increased police staffing substantially reduce violence remains mixed at best. If our budget resources are truly limited, we literally can’t afford to keep pouring money into an approach that won’t be certain to substantially improve public safety, while ignoring an approach to public safety that could prevent more harm and crime at a fraction of the cost.
You can learn more about the evidence supporting community violence prevention and our policy arguments in our special report: Preventing Violence Before it Happens: Why Asheville Should Rebalance Public Safety Priorities in FY2027.
Our Proposal: Asheville should use the final weeks of the budget process to rebalance public safety priorities toward prevention and community stability.
- The City should slow further surveillance expansion, which means pausing or limiting additional investment in new camera systems, license plate readers, software integrations, and long-term surveillance contracts until the City can demonstrate clear evidence that these systems meaningfully improve public safety relative to their long-term cost.
- The City should also carefully manage future policing growth through attrition. This doesn’t mean eliminating Asheville’s existing public safety capacity. Instead, it suggests that we stop adding new sworn officers – the current budget draft calls for 24 additions – so that the City can balance enforcement needs with greater investment in prevention-oriented public safety approaches.
- With the resources liberated by this approach, the City can preserve community center operations, and create a modest Community Violence Intervention pilot focused on youth outreach, mentorship, conflict mediation, and trauma-informed support. This could strengthen communities and reduce the strain on our existing public safety systems (that may be leading the City to believe we need more restrictive and reactive strategies).
For readers who want more detail, our full recommendations are outlined in the “Proposed FY2027 Budget Adjustments” section of our special report here.
Things to do: If you haven’t already reached out, we invite you to use our email template to contact Asheville City Council and urge the City to prioritize prevention-oriented public safety investments and preservation of community infrastructure.
Email Template: You can send an email to the Asheville City Council by filling out the form below. Our email tool will send an individually addressed email to the recipients, and enable us to track how many emails were sent overall in the campaign. If you prefer to write your own email, you can copy and paste (and adapt) our template text – please cc: or bcc: info@gapavl.org on your individualized email, so we can better track how many emails were sent.
To: AshevilleNCCouncil@ashevillenc.gov
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Subject: Please prioritize prevention and community stability in Asheville’s budget
Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
I am writing because I am deeply concerned about the direction of Asheville’s FY2027 public safety budget.
The current draft budget reflects a simultaneous reduction of community center hours alongside expansion of expensive policing technology, surveillance infrastructure, and staffing. I believe this reflects the wrong set of priorities.
Research increasingly shows that violence is often driven by instability, trauma, chronic stress, isolation, and conflict escalation — conditions that cannot be solved through surveillance cameras or reactive enforcement alone. Prevention-oriented strategies like youth outreach, mentorship, conflict mediation, trauma-informed services, and Community Violence Intervention (CVI) programs are often more effective at reducing violence before it happens, while also costing far less over time.
Community centers and neighborhood programs are not separate from public safety. They are part of what creates public safety. They provide young people with safe spaces, trusted relationships, recreation opportunities, mentorship, and community connection. Cutting resources from these systems while expanding long-term surveillance infrastructure could weaken some of the very conditions that help prevent violence in the first place.
I urge the City to:
- Reconsider further surveillance expansion and long-term technology commitments
- Pause hiring of sworn officers in the Asheville Police Department, or hire fewer than the 24 additional officers proposed in the budget
- Use the considerable funding this will free up to preserve community center hours as a resource for prevention-oriented public safety approaches, including a modest Community Violence Intervention pilot program
Asheville has an opportunity to pursue a public safety strategy rooted not only in responding after harm occurs, but in preventing violence before lives are permanently altered.
Thank you for your consideration.
REPORT BACK STATUS
Unresolved
Report Back
Total GAP Supporter Actions Taken: 36
Recipients and Responses:
Asheville City Council
- Mayor Esther Manheimer: No response
- Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley: No response
- City Council Member Bo Hess: Responded, see below
- City Council Member Kim Roney: Responded, see below
- City Council Member Maggie Ullman: No response
- City Council Member Sage Turner: No response
- City Council Member Sheneika Smith: No response
Email Response from Council Member Bo Hess:
I agree.
Bo
Email response from Kim Roney:
Thank you for providing input on the budget and for your request to pursue public safety strategies focused on prevention, healing, and community well-being.
With shared concern,
Kim
Buncombe County’s proposed revitalization initiatives and FY2027 budget lack meaningful anti-displacement safeguards
PROBLEMATIC
Summary (updated 5/25/26): At their meeting on May 19th, members of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners acknowledged ongoing affordability concerns but did not meaningfully consider a broader anti-displacement framework, as we have repeatedly called for. As a result, major revitalization and infrastructure investments continue moving forward without comprehensive safeguards designed to protect vulnerable residents from long-term displacement pressures.
Because the County continues to ignore our written communication on this issue, we invite you to join us in making a public comment at their next formal meeting on June 2. Public comment is one of the first items on the County agenda for each meeting, so it takes place shortly after 5 pm. If you can join us at 200 College Street next Tuesday, please sign up below and we’ll follow up with you.
Original Summary: As Buncombe County considers both its proposed FY2027 budget and a major Commercial District Revitalization initiative, the County continues to advance recovery, redevelopment, and infrastructure investments without a clear anti-displacement framework; we believe County leaders should immediately begin incorporating displacement-impact analysis and community protections into these decisions before final approval.
The Facts: Buncombe County is currently considering and advancing several major initiatives connected to post-Helene recovery, infrastructure investment, and economic revitalization. These include:
- A proposed Commercial District Revitalization initiative — separate from but closely connected to the County’s broader recovery agenda — that would support corridor revitalization and infrastructure improvements in Swannanoa and other storm-impacted areas;
- A proposed FY2027 budget that includes major investments in recovery, transportation partnerships, public facilities, economic development, and other capital and infrastructure projects during a period of rapidly rising property values following a countywide reappraisal that increased assessed values by approximately 43%.
The Commercial District Revitalization proposal includes projects related to sidewalk construction, pedestrian connectivity, commercial corridor improvements, remediation of storm-damaged properties, and activation of properties acquired through the federally funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which supports the acquisition and redevelopment of disaster-impacted properties to reduce future flood and hazard risks. The FY2027 budget includes funding for public safety facilities, transportation-related partnerships, greenway and recreation projects, facility renovations, economic development incentives, conservation easements, and affordable housing services.
You can see the County’s commercial district revitalization presentation slides here and the budget presentation slides here. You can read the County’s proposed budget in brief here.
Our Assessment: Many of the investments currently being discussed by Buncombe County may provide real public benefits. Recovery investments, transportation improvements, and commercial revitalization efforts can help communities recover from Hurricane Helene and improve long-term quality of life.
But public investment can also increase land values, accelerate speculation, raise rents, and increase displacement pressure — especially in communities already facing affordability challenges. Sidewalk improvements, corridor revitalization, infrastructure upgrades, and economic development initiatives often make neighborhoods more attractive to outside investment while providing few protections for existing residents and small businesses.
For the past five months, the County has been hearing concerns from residents, advocates, and community organizations about displacement and affordability pressures. Yet the current Commercial District Revitalization proposal and the proposed FY2027 budget still do not appear to include any measures to protect existing residents and businesses from displacement pressures (i.e. a broader anti-displacement framework, displacement-impact review process, or targeted protections for communities facing heightened displacement risk during post-disaster recovery and redevelopment).
This is especially concerning because the County is making these decisions during a period of post-disaster rebuilding and rapid increases in assessed property values. The absence of an anti-displacement framework is no longer simply an oversight — it is becoming a pattern of governance that leaves vulnerable communities exposed to the unintended harmful consequences of public investment.
Our Proposal: We have repeatedly called on Buncombe County to adopt a comprehensive anti-displacement strategy that incorporates housing stability, community preservation, equitable development, and displacement-risk analysis into public decision-making. (You can read our full proposal here.) The County still has an opportunity to begin moving in that direction before final adoption of the FY2027 budget and approval of related recovery and revitalization initiatives.
At a minimum, the County could take several immediate steps over the next two weeks:
- Direct staff to identify communities and corridors at elevated risk of displacement connected to recovery and infrastructure investment;
- Require basic displacement impact analysis for major revitalization and capital projects;
- Prioritize affordable housing preservation and anti-displacement protections in areas targeted for public investment;
- Commit to developing a formal County anti-displacement framework during the upcoming fiscal year.
These would not solve the problem overnight. But they would represent a meaningful acknowledgment that public investment decisions can have unintended consequences — and that protecting vulnerable communities should be part of responsible recovery and budgeting.
A basic displacement-impact review process could provide County leaders with data about which communities are most vulnerable to rising rents, redevelopment pressure, speculative investment, and commercial displacement connected to public investment decisions. That information could help shape final budget priorities, including where to direct affordable housing resources, small business support, preservation funding, infrastructure phasing, and community stabilization efforts.
We have been warning Buncombe County for many months that growth and redevelopment pressures could displace longtime residents and small businesses. The County still has an opportunity to show that it is willing to plan for those impacts instead of reacting after displacement has already occurred.
Things to do (Updated 5/25/26): We invite you to join us in making a public comment at the next formal meeting of the Buncombe County Commission on June 2. Public comment is one of the first items on the County agenda for each meeting, so takes place shortly after 5 pm. If you can join us at 200 College Street next Tuesday, please sign up below and we’ll follow up with you.
Original Things to Do: We invited you to use the email template we had provided (removed, no longer active) to urge the Buncombe County Commission to incorporate anti-displacement protections and displacement-impact analysis into both the proposed Commercial District Revitalization initiative and the FY2027 budget before final approval.
REPORT BACK STATUS
Unresolved
Report Back
At last week’s meeting, County Commissioners largely approached affordability and redevelopment concerns through the lens of individual projects and funding decisions rather than through a broader structural discussion about displacement prevention. The absence of a comprehensive anti-displacement framework remains a significant gap in how the County evaluates revitalization and infrastructure investments.
Total GAP Supporter Actions Taken: 8
Recipients and Responses:
Buncombe County Commission
- County Commission Chair Amanda Edwards: No response
- County Commissioner Al Whitesides: No response
- County Commissioner Drew Ball: No response
- County Commissioner Jennifer Horton: No response
- County Commissioner Martin Moore: No response
- County Commissioner Parker Sloane: No response
- County Commissioner Terri Wells: No response
PREVIOUS REPORTS
GAP Report for 5/25/26
0 Items Asheville should shift public safety funding toward prevention and community stability instead of continued expansion of expensive reactive policing systems (new) 0 Items 0 Items Buncombe County’s proposed revitalization initiatives and FY2027 budget lack...
GAP Report for 5/18/26
0 Items Buncombe County’s proposed revitalization initiatives and FY2027 budget lack meaningful anti-displacement safeguards (new) 0 Items 0 Items Asheville should reject or substantially revise the Caribou Road and Sweeten Creek developments in response to community...
GAP Report for 5/11/26
Asheville should reject or substantially revise the Caribou Road and Sweeten Creek developments in response to community concerns from Shiloh (new) Asheville should reject the proposed RTIC/Axon surveillance expansion until real oversight and accountability exist...
GAP Report for 5/4/26
0 Items Buncombe County is advancing budget, land use, and investment decisions without any anti-displacement analysis (new) Appeal deadline for property tax reappraisals is too early (resolved) The 50 Coxe Avenue affordable housing development should do more to...
GAP Report for 4/27/26
0 Items Buncombe County is advancing major decisions that impact displacement without clear analysis or a coordinated policy response (updated) Appeal deadline for property tax reappraisals is too early (updated) The 50 Coxe Avenue affordable housing development...