Housing Displacement - Trends and Strategies

About This Session:

Join us for a learning webinar exploring housing displacement trends and strategies across North Carolina. Our guest speaker from the North Carolina Housing Coalition will share insights into the drivers of displacement, emerging statewide data, and promising approaches that communities, nonprofits, and funders are using to preserve housing stability and expand equitable housing opportunities. This session will provide valuable context for funders interested in supporting resilient communities and addressing one of North Carolina’s most pressing challenges.

About The Speaker:
Hudson Vaughn is the Director of the Community Justice Collaborative, a program of the NC Housing Coalition that connects and supports community-led anti-displacement efforts in historically Black communities across the North Carolina’s Triangle region. In the last several years, his work at the NC Housing Coalition has facilitated the development of the Alliance of Rooted Communities, made up of 45 leaders from 18 Historically Black neighborhoods and place-based organizations pursuing holistic housing preservation and development strategies together. 

Hudson grew up in Memphis, Tennessee in a historically Black community where he witnessed the power of community development led and shaped by longtime neighbors. He co-founded and served for twelve years as the director of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, a community development center in historically Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill/Carrboro. In his time at the Jackson Center, he helped mobilize a $3 million community-controlled land bank and set of housing justice strategies that led to the creation of over 50 diverse affordable housing units, helped retain hundreds of long-term Black neighbors, and led to the first rise in the Black population in the Northside neighborhood in over 40 years. Hudson lives in Northside with his wife Maggie and two kids, Charlie and Ada.

Hudson has a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, a masters from Duke University, and a NC real estate broker’s license. In graduate school, Hudson published a study on the inequities in NC property tax valuations. Last year, he published a report called “Overtaxed: Inequities in Orange County’s Property Tax Revaluation” detailing coalition efforts supported by the NC Housing Coalition to expose and challenge the unfairness of the recent revaluation as part of a broader region-wide grassroots effort that successfully reduced property taxes of longtime residents by over $5 million.