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Orange County, NC Consolidated Plan for 2000-2005 Executive Summary Background Grimed in North Carolina, Orange County includes not paid the awns of Caroberse and jefilbbteiscoh but also Chapel Hilh the home of the largest campus Of the Stare university. Re presence of id rsity smden more affluent aM rani ent then other eosin res'lddon bas created an unbalance In terms of homing and commcnly development needs Orange cache muse durtire, tons ,prhe its efforts on serums a strong urban Investment and real areas as weft The emotions housing issues m Orange Corme here n changed the West cost of have ershlp has left many laxative u of the housing market or sent them to ruling contest to buy homes and commune into Orange Concrete? work Rerental market wi lined hvthe ability of UNC-CH include able he pay higher ants, Is beyond the means Ofamiltee with es below 50%ofthe area medmn_ Aorfde wles to need ofthree or more bedrooms. very polls housing track exists. The number of women and children amying at the homeless shelter continues to ire dramaNcalN, and emerged from the shelter into permanent housing in Orange Cohost, isa decade Impossible since no transitional housing seism Housing for special inn n groups such as the elderly, persons that are developmentally disabled conspiratorial skit element coding demrium, is limited in Orage County. Community Profile Orange County, Not h Creative neludes the incoryormei Towne of Cartlwro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsbormed, and is the home of into largest campus of the State mivttsity system - the U naciry of Noun Carolina a Chapel Hill. The Ununty is a part of the Raingh lgrals m- Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Arne (MSA) that comprises six counties in the Research Triangle Atca with a pegu id n of 1.1 million people. The region is highly rated as a place to live and do business. In mother, Orange County, in ledt6cular, has the most appearance cost for new housing in the regain and Chapel Hill in adding a few after cities in the seam read high on the cost of living index. rights, the County enjoys a low employment rate of approximately one (1) percent These "first" present a ohallengn i addressing the housing vends of Orange COwry residuum. In 2000, the population of Orange Coumy is estimated to m 111,982. That represents a 19% pejoration Main since 1990, with an anticipated growth of 8% through 3005. Of rest cumber, approximately P percent wart White, 16 pemeurwere African Amerkaq and ] per mild were of other minority groups including Ammlean ledin Asian and Hispanic. The fastest growing ants of the population ate of Asian major Hispanic descent whose population has more seam IFan dmibled s{ace 1993.