Rezoning efforts here could help create more housing for students, and alleviate housing pressure on other parts of town.
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 inOur neighborhoods
In less than a decade, more than 100 Black residents moved out of Starr Hill
The neighborhood was named for wealthy and educated Black families, “the Stars.” Here’s how it has changed.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
A decade of data tells a story of how Charlottesville’s neighborhoods are changing
This year, we’re telling 19 stories about 19 neighborhoods using data, history and voices of the community.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
We’re about a third of the way through Charlottesville’s massive rezoning effort
Here are 7 things you should know about it.
Posted inCulture
While Charlottesville erected Confederate monuments, hundreds of African American residents were sitting for professional portraits
A new exhibition tells the story through nearly 200 portraits taken in the Holsinger photography studio at the turn of the 20th Century.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Wanna try an e-bike? Josh Carp will lend you his
As interest in e-biking grows in Charlottesville, Carp launched a lending library out of his laundry room.
Posted inHow we learn
With just six bus drivers, more than 3,000 Charlottesville City Schools children are making their own ways to school this year
“A lot of parents are freaking out right now,” said Noelle Dwyer.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Eviction filings soar as rent relief program winds down
More than 100 people crammed into the Albemarle County courthouse Thursday for yet another marathon day of eviction hearings.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Public housing resident speaks about new youth program — ‘We have to show them that those dreams are possible’
“We’re so busy trying to tell them to be still, to be quiet and behave. How can they grow like that?” says Asia Green.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
After struggling as a child, mother and grandmother in Charlottesville public housing, Mary Anderson wants to help a new generation thrive
Anderson grew up in Westhaven in the 1970s and now lives there in her grandmother’s old unit.
