Strangers In Our Own Land

A photo-essay/documentation project chronicling the rapidly changing landscape of Charlotte’s West Side.

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Latest news story lists salary you’d need to afford a median home in the city. Median salary in Seversville is $22k, less than half of salary listed here.

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Always bringing the real.

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Cox Ave., in under 3 months, has been transformed. A low-income apartment building has been vacated, and at least 6 new homes have been built, or are in process. The average price of these new homes is $400k.

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August 2017: Single-family flip, $350k asking price. Median income 2015, $30.3k.

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Currently reading “Democratic Development for Thriving Communities” a funders report on gentrification and development. Report can be found here: http://www.nfg.org/democratic_development_report?utm_campaign=gentrifi_report&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nfg

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More postcards, calls and signs are coming to the West Side. The message is both inflammatory & predatory, and is false advertising. Where's the regulation?

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Price history for house: 5/17 sold for $175k; 6/16 sold for $89k; 1/07 sold for $70k; 3/05 sold for $22k. Foreclosure 1/05 $31k. Source: Zillow

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August, 2017: Katonah Ave. rehab underway

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Changes in Seversville’s perimeter

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In late July, 2017, this has become almost a weekly occurrence.

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I’m not even from Charlotte, and I hear what’s happening to Black and Brown people and how they are being pushed out.

Tim Carter

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Rozzelles Ferry & West Trade

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Cox Ave. apartments cleared out, as six new houses go in.

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Biddleville-Smallwood, July 2017