There are families going through hurdles each week as they search for a place to live within their budgets.
Jessica Spore lives in the Charlotte area. She is from Garner and has been trying to move back to Raleigh.
Her husband got a job in the Capitol City to jump-start their new life here, but she said it's been impossible to find affordable housing.
"We don't know where to go and what to do right now," said Spore. "We were looking at living out of a camper for a little bit, figure it out where we want to be, what we want to do, because it's really easy to get discouraged."
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More than half of the multi-million dollar housing bond being proposed would go toward affordable-housing development and preservation. Another $10 million would go to homebuyer assistance and preservation. $12 million would go toward homelessness response, and $21 million is tapped for mixed-income development.
The nonprofit Livable Raleigh is urging the Raleigh City Council to double the bond amount to meet the need and is also encouraging the council to increase developer contributions to affordable housing.
"Developers are making huge profits from all the ups earnings, and a lot of the ups zonings are scraping affordable housing away, and they're not being asked to you know, contribute anything back," said Livable Raleigh spokesperson Stef Mendell.
Spore is putting her Charlotte-area home on the market next month and hopes it sells quickly, but isn't sure about her plans after that.
"I feel kind of lost in this situation," she said. "Trying to figure out what we can get."
The bond would possibly go before voters on the November ballot.
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