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The North Carolina Housing Coalition is a private, non-profit membership organization working for decent, affordable housing that promotes self-determination and stable communities for low- and moderate-income North Carolinians. We work to accomplish our mission by supporting our members and building partnerships to improve affordable housing, and focus on the following activities:

Resource and Referral – We respond to numerous calls and emails from people across the state who need affordable housing. We provide them with information on how to find housing in their community.

Technical Assistance/Outreach – We provide guidance and instruction to groups across the state to help build local housing coalitions. We also organize Foreclosure Prevention Workshops, Fair Housing Workshops and are developing a Housing Communications Workshop. Additionally, we administer the Carolina Homeless Information Network (CHIN), a system designed to help determine an unduplicated count of homeless individuals in NC.

Advocacy – We champion affordable housing at the state and federal legislatures. We also encourage and empower local citizens to advocate to their city and county governments.

Clearinghouse for Data, Statistics, Best Practices and Research – We collect, analyze and disseminate the most up-to-date information on affordable housing. We include this in our twice-monthly e-newsletter and archive it on our website.


Specific programs of the Coalition include:

  • CHIN (Carolina Homeless Information Network): CHIN is a program of the NC Housing Coalition to bring about a statewide information database of homeless service providers. This program serves local agency record-keeping needs as well as provide local, regional, and statewide unduplicated demographic data about the state's homeless population for the first time.  To learn more about CHIN, visit their website.
  • HUD OTAG Program: The Coalition previously administered the HUD OTAG program, which ended in 2007. We are currently lobbying the Obama administration to renew funding to create a similar program in 2011. To learn more about what this work entailed, click here.
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