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A sold-out charity concert at Red Hat Amphitheater last week, featuring the country band Turnpike Troubadours, raised more than $1 million for affordable housing.

Renters and homebuyers face a dismal landscape these days in finding affordable housing. But community groups and nonprofit landlords in North Carolina say they're determined to increase their options, especially for people from low-income or marginalized backgrounds. Delores Bailey, executive director of the nonprofit group EMPOWERment in Chapel Hill, said her organization is spearheading the building of PEACH Apartments, a $3.5 million project to provide affordable housing for essential workers in the historically African American neighborhood of Pine Knolls. ...

Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina businessman who celebrates the power of the free market. Every year, millions of public education dollars flow through Mitchell’s chain of four nonprofit charter schools to for-profit companies he controls.

United Way's 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge is back this year, with stories, presentations, panels, and online discussions designed to help people create more racial equality in their communities.

United Way of the Greater Triangle is funding the work of nine neighborhood leaders.