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Affordable housing remains one of the most vexing problems in North Carolina and around the country. What’s more, as we were reminded in a conversation this past week with NC Newsline poverty and housing reporter Greg Chidress, it’s a challenge that’s only been made worse by real and threatened federal funding cuts and the uncertainty those cuts are driving amongst the heroic service providers here and elsewhere who do their best to help the unhoused and expand the housing stock.

Happily, the story is not exclusively bleak. As Childress reminded us, there is evidence of a growth in new housing construction in some communities. What’s more, as was highlighted in a recent story he authored about a dynamic young activist and nonprofit leader in the city of Kinston, local advocacy and entrepreneurship can still make a real difference in addressing this daunting problem.

Click here to listen to the full interview with Newsline report Greg Childress.