The Town of Knightdale currently needs more than 650 affordable housing units to help bridge the gap with the booming population.
Leaders who are pushing an affordable housing plan held an open house Monday to highlight some of the goals and inform people living in the area what the plan would entail. After the open house, the plan was officially presented to the Knightdale Town Council.
Victoria Pruitt moved with her family to Knightdale more than 20 years ago. She has witnessed the town’s extensive transformation.
“I’ve seen it go from sleepy, little tiny town to like a bustling sort of place,” she said. “We saw the beltline be built from Hodges Road, so that didn’t even used to be there.”
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Pruitt is the primary caretaker for her parents and lives in their home, along with her fiancé.