The town’s mayor hoped a proposed apartment project would save them, but Council voted it down.
Category: The big stories
Here are reports that exemplify Charlottesville Tomorrow’s focus on the community and that cover issues that you might not see elsewhere.
Posted inHealth and safety
UVA Police locked down campus during Sunday night’s manhunt, but did not alert community members living blocks away
“It’s scary to think that a shooter was loose in my city for so long and I had no idea,” Paige Robinson said. “We’re the same community.”
Posted inHow we learn
After 50 years of busing Westhaven kids away from their neighborhood school, City Schools votes to rezone Venable
The children in the predominantly Black public housing community have been zoned away from Venable since integration.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
A decade of data tells a story of how Charlottesville’s neighborhoods are changing
We’re telling 19 stories about 19 neighborhoods using data, history and voices of the community.
Posted inFrom the newsroom
Our #Charlottesville: How Charlottesville Tomorrow is covering the fifth anniversary of Unite the Right
Five years after the “summer of hate,” we’re telling our community’s own stories.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
In the Charlottesville area, the rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting pushed out
An increase in area median income will increase the number of people eligible for housing assistance — but not the amount of assistance available.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
When this Charlottesville shelter closes next year, its 100 elderly and seriously ill guests might have nowhere to go
“If it weren’t for Premier Circle, I’d be homeless,” said Sunshades, a shelter guest.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
2022 Voter Guide and Election Results
Here’s what you need to know to make informed choices about who represents you.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down
Farmville earns $15,000 and the private company that operates the center earns $2 million per month from the federal government, even though they had a huge COVID-19 outbreak and detainees say that conditions there have been unbearable.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Charlottesville’s 10th & Page has fewer trees and higher temperatures than other residential neighborhoods — and it’s not by accident
“What I think redlining and all of these nefarious urban planning decisions from the past show us is that decisions that we make can reverberate for a hundred years or more,” said Jeremy Hoffman, a researcher at the Science Museum of Virginia.
