The Regulator Bookstore will host the next reading of This is My Home. We invite people to come out and see the book live. Adam Rust will show pictures from the book and talk about manufactured housing.

CRA-NC executive director Peter Skillern will host the evening.

North Carolina Housing Coalition Executive Director Chris Estes will be on hand to discuss the legislative campaigns currently underway that involved manufactured housing. He’ll also share some of the years of work that have already gone into the consumer protections issues in North Carolina.

Neill Goslin from the Center for Self-Help will discuss the nuts and bolts of underwriting and making loans for manufactured housing.

The Regulator Bookshop is a wonderful independent bookseller, located at 720 9th Street in Durham, North Carolina.  Phone is 919.286.2700.  The evening begins at 7 pm. They will have copies of the book for signing and purchase, too.

There is parking across the street.

The This is My Home Book Tour is making its next stop at The Regulator Book Store on 9th Street in Durham on Sept. 12th. The reading is scheduled to begin at approximately 7 pm.

Adam Rust will show pictures from the book and read excerpts of some (more…)

Leaders of North Carolina’s affordable housing and community development groups will view a presentation of This is My Home on Thursday, August 16th in Raleigh.

The Governor’s Housing Coordination and Policy Council exists to  serve as a forum for new ideas in housing policy.

Thanks to every one who came out on Wednesday to the Internationalist to see a presentation of This is My Home.

It was a good turn out — enough to fill the room and then some!  CRA-NC staff was (more…)

Just a reminder, that tonight there will be a reading at the Internationalist Bookstore in Chapel Hill.  The reading begins at 7.

The Internationalist is located at 405 W. Franklin St.  Parking is onstreet.  There are also spots on Rosemary and it the surface lots along Franklin.

The Internationalist is a great setting to kick off this tour.  How?  Because it is a co-operatively owned bookstore.  I think its a reminder of the direction that we need to take in looking for solutions on reforming land lease parks.  The lesson is that people can work together, drawing upon their own talents, to create change.