On Wednesday, August 18th, Congressman David Price of North Carolina’s 4th congressional district visited the Homestead Gardens site, the future location of 117 units of mixed-income, affordable housing, located at 2200 Homestead Road. Town managers and staff and members of the development team attended to welcome Con. Price, including Dan Levine and Graham Smokoski of Self-Help Ventures Fund, Jess Brandes of CASA, Jennifer Player of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, and Kimberly Sanchez of Community Home Trust.
The Homestead Gardens project is one of ten projects selected from the 4th congressional district as a finalist for Community Project Funding (CPF), a new federal funding initiative for Fiscal Year 2022 that allows members of Congress to request direct funding for projects that benefit the communities they represent and show evidence of strong community support. As Chair of the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development within the Congressional Appropriations Committee, Con. Price has served a key role in informing his district about the opportunity and advocating for projects. The Homestead Gardens team is grateful for Con. Price’s advocacy efforts for this project and look forward to hearing more about the final CPF awards when the FY 2022 federal budget is approved, possibly in fall 2021.
Learn more about the Town’s Homestead Gardens project here.
