“I’ve heard time and time again, it’s like you send an email and it goes into some folder, never to be seen again,” said Bryan Nicol, chair of the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
Category: Our neighborhoods
We cover the physical landscapes of Charlottesville and surrounding counties and how things change. We help you understand how history has shaped our city, and how our choices today will affect the future.
Posted inNewsletter
‘I am truly horrified that these conditions exist anywhere in the county’
This week’s investigation is closing, but that’s just the start for renters and local officials.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Virginia law does not make it easy for a renter to force a landlord to improve conditions — even hazardous ones
Against all odds, one Park’s Edge tenant got a case into court. It didn’t go the way she thought it would.
Posted inNewsletter
Hear more about ‘No Way Out’ on ‘In My Humble Opinion’
Plus, the next report into the investigation of how renters trying to improve their living conditions found frustration and futility instead.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
In Albemarle County, Park’s Edge residents endure stinking floods, rat infestations, fire hazards — and a frequently unresponsive landlord
“They just don’t care,” said one longtime tenant. “They just don’t care.”
Posted inHealth and safety
No way out: How Virginia law fails vulnerable renters
Floods, roaches, rats, mold — this is Charlottesville Tomorrow’s investigation into how Virginia law often offers few options for renters in dangerous living conditions.
Posted inHow we learn
After closing childcare centers across central Virginia in 2024, this nonprofit is opening a new center in Southwood
With new leadership and new funding, the Monticello Area Community Action Agency will offer bilingual early education with affordable tuition.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Rising rents and limited affordable housing continue to push more people in Charlottesville area into homelessness, local nonprofits say
Local nonprofits told Charlottesville City Council that at least 703 individuals in the Charlottesville area experienced homelessness of some kind in the last year, up from 620 the previous year.
Posted inHow we learn
53 names, finally spoken: Woodberry student’s research restores recognition to enslaved individuals who made the school possible
Jayden Crosby-Brewer worked with local historians to identify 53 enslaved people who built and maintained a former Madison family estate on the campus, restoring visibility to individuals whose lives had been reduced to property records.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Fifeville luxury student housing project to move forward despite community opposition
Charlottesville City Council voted Monday to grant a Certificate of Appropriateness. The decision overturned a Board of Architectural Review decision to deny the certificate over concerns about the impact on two protected houses in a historically Black neighborhood.
