St. Michael’s Episcopal Church and nonprofit Raleigh Area Land Trust are working together to create an affordable housing community in Wake County.
The church donated $300,000 to the nonprofit to build 18 permanent affordable cottages in the historic Idlewild neighborhood. The affordable housing community itself will cost $8 million.
“Idlewild, in particular, is one of the earliest neighborhoods in Raleigh, where Black families owned their homes,” said Greg Jones, a priest at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. “We believe that part of our calling as Christians here in this town is to be here for all the people who are from this town.”…