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8 <br /> Slide#11 <br /> HOUSING IN ORANGE COUNTY <br /> The County's Greatest-Needs Residents Face <br /> Persistent Housing Challenges <br /> Affordable and available housing units for every 100 extremely low- Share of people living in poverty residing in high-poverty <br /> Income residents neighborhoods <br /> 70 _ 25% <br /> 60 20% <br /> 50 <br /> 40 _ _ 15% <br /> 30 10% <br /> 20 <br /> 5% <br /> 10 <br /> 0 0% <br /> Alamance Chatham Durham Orange Wake Alamance Chatham Durham Orange Wake <br /> County County County County County County County County County County <br /> -U N R A N. I N R T I T U T R - Source:Urban Institute Upward Mobility Dashboard(using 2023 data). <br /> Yonah Freemark said excluding students, Orange County is second from the bottom in <br /> providing affordable housing units to extremely low-income residents. He offered to examine in- <br /> depth the share of people living in poverty resident in high-poverty neighborhoods. <br /> Commissioner Carter asked what the picture looks like outside of these counties. <br /> Yonah Freemark did not have that information available. <br /> Commissioner Bedford said Chapel Hill has the housing authority, so that is where public <br /> housing is located. She said mobile homes are decreasing in the towns and county, and there are <br /> historic minority communities through the county as well. <br /> Slide #12 <br /> HOU5ING IN ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Conditions Imply that Orange County is Not <br /> Providing Homes for Those Who Need Them <br /> • A majority of Orange County workers are commuting in from <br /> elsewhere.They're likely doing so because they can't find the <br /> affordable homes they need. <br /> • The housing market is concentrating a specific demographic of <br /> residents—homeowners in single-family homes—rather than <br /> accommodating the broader market found throughout the Triangle. <br /> U R B A N I N 5 T I T U T R 1_ <br />