2025 Candidate Housing Responses

CITYBUILDER, in collaboration with RDU New Liberals, Yes in My Triangle!, and Strong Towns Raleigh Local Conversation, invited every candidate in this year’s municipal races to complete a housing questionnaire.

Our goal was simple: to see which candidates understand that our region needs to build more homes of every kind, from market-rate to subsidized affordable housing and every missing middle solution in between.

Below are the full responses from those who responded. Published so voters can better understand where candidates stand on housing in their communities. These responses informed the Durham Housing Report Cards and Triangle Pro-Housing PASS Stamps of Approval we previously published.

The responses for each Municipal Race:

• Durham

  • Mayor: Leo Williams, Anjanee Bell

  • City Council Ward I: Matt Kopac, Elijah King

  • City Council Ward II: Mark-Anthony Middleton, Ashley Robbins

  • City Council Ward III: Diana Medoff, Terry McCann

• Apex

  • Town Council: Shane Reese

• Carrboro

  • Mayor: Barbara Foushee

  • Town C…