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Benjamin Schachtman
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Tenants got the letters by mail, with shocking news: they'll see their rents double or even triple next year.
The Newsroom
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There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of unhoused families who go uncounted in New Hanover County each year. Many of them work, often full-time jobs, while living in motels, cars, or bouncing from couch to couch. Today's episode digs into those problems, and what could be done for them.
More Local News
- Wilmington Minority Chamber of Commerce launches to help support local businesses
- Wilmington officials cut ribbon on Fifth Avenue's new bike lane
- Alderman Elementary teaching assistant terminated after altercation with student
- With costs a growing worry for Americans, Trump seeks to defend his economic record
- Re-Education Nation: NHCS Board Member Tim Merrick talks funding, censure
- Pender County loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud scheme
- Still afloat: NC ferry system gets boost but challenges remain
- Sunday Edition: No More Moonshots?
- From NPR's "Here to Help" series: The best volunteers are the ones who always show up
- Wilmington area businesses, experts explore ways to improve the child care industry
- How to protect yourself from viral infections circulating this holiday season
- The downtown Wilmington grocery-store deal fell apart. What's next?
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Commentary: Bob Thompson "Longfellow and the Bells"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Susan Habas, director of the Thalian Association
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Marva Mapson Robinson, director of the Williston Alumni Community Choir
- Commentary: Gary Trawick "Say I Don’t Know"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Alex Hill of City Ballet
- WHQR Now presents Tercel
- Holiday Programming 2025
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Meghan McDonald, education and outreach manager for the Wilmington Symphony
- "Upcycled and Deconstructed" Fourth Friday Reception
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dan Brawley, director of Cucalorus Film Festival
- WHQR Public Media Wins Six Broadcast Journalism Awards
- Heather Wilson and Ben Billingsley on the Cameron Art Museum's newest exhibitions
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- Detained migrant children aren't being reunited with family, government sources say
- Justice Department begins releasing Epstein files... What's next?
- Trump's push to end transgender care for young people opposed by pediatricians
- VA will cut 25,000 positions it has been unable to fill
- DOJ releases Epstein files and the first batch is short on new information
- Judge blocks HUD homelessness overhaul, rebukes agency for causing 'chaos'
- A Reddit post helped find MIT and Brown shooting suspect. Here's what we know
- Cheddar bay biscuits, cheap margs and memories: Readers share their nostalgia for chain restaurants
- Brown University shooting suspect found dead. And Epstein files release deadline looms
- It's the last news quiz of the year! Will you go out on top?
State News
- Greensboro HVAC company to invest $13.5M in expansion
- NTSB conducting investigation of Statesville Airport crash
- New WS/FCS Superintendent Don Phipps looks to celebrate students and rebuild trust amid low morale
- WNC homeowners get more time to apply for Helene housing recovery
- N.C. A&T acquires nearly 90 acres of farmland
- Forsyth Hall of Justice building to be converted to retail, office space
- 'We have to be better prepared:' Stein highlights $270 million in water infrastructure funds for WNC
- New music venue planned for former Triad Stage theater
- Judges overseeing Camp Lejeune toxic water cases reject government’s attempt to block evidence from federal agency
- Jim Hunt, governor who championed education, dies at 88
