CHARLOTTE — Charlotte City Council is planning to buy three rental homes to preserve them as affordable housing.
Council will vote Monday to buy the three northwest Charlotte properties for $465,000. Two of the houses are on Catherine Simmons Avenue, and the third is located on Haines Street.
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The city says they will renovate each unit and then give them to a nonprofit to lease them as affordable housing.
The three brick rental units were built in 1972, and each have 700 square feet of living space.
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