Asheville for All

September 9, 2024 Updated: October 11, 2024

UPDATE: We’ve posted more information on how to vote in the election here.

Asheville City Council Endorsements

Asheville For All is pleased to endorse Sage Turner, Kevan Frazier, and Tod Leaven for Asheville City Council.

In the last four years, Sage Turner has been a consistent force for housing justice, taking a broad view on zoning decisions even in the face of NIMBY opposition. She’s also supported subsidies increasing the number of homes available for all kinds of working Ashevilleans. On the campaign trail, Tod Leaven and Kevan Frazier have shown themselves to be clear-eyed and serious about the need for a multi-pronged approach to solving Asheville’s housing crisis.

We believe that all three candidates are committed to seeing a greater diversity of housing types both on our transit supportive corridors and in our core neighborhoods, for an Asheville that is more walkable, more affordable, and more welcoming.

Sage Turner, Tod Leaven, and Kevan Frazier

You can find more information about these candidates on their websites, linked above.

Asheville Ballot Referenda Endorsements

Asheville For All is pleased to endorse the affordable housing bond on the ballot in November.

While property owners have benefited from tremendous asset inflation in the past two decades, that same benefit has come at a cost to countless working individuals and families in Asheville who are now struggling to make ends meet because of an unprecedented rise in rents. The affordable housing bond on the ballot in November will make a difference for some of those families by aiding the city in subsidizing income-restricted homes, funding land acquisition for below-market-rate housing, and even leveraging other sources of funding to maximize the return on the dollars being raised by this bond.

You can find more information about the housing bond as well as Asheville’s other General Obligation Bond referenda, here.

Please Register to Vote

You can find out if you’re registered to vote in North Carolina here, and you can register to vote here.

Please note that North Carolina has new photo ID requirements for voting. You can learn more here, including how to get a free photo ID from the county board of elections the DMV.