On Dec. 7, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved appointments to the county’s first Affordable Housing Advisory Board, which has replaced a task force focused on affordable housing. The new advisory board has several seats for residents across the county as well as several designated seats for groups involved with affordable housing, such as realtors, builders, nonprofits and residents who are underserved or in a protected class under civil rights laws.
The board will have a total of 11 voting members and nine non-voting (ex officio) members. Newly appointed resident members are Michael Dasher, Linda Lang, Carlos Simpson, Jeffrey Starkweather, William Leroy and Margaret Wurth. Realtor member is Lonnie West, builder member is Lee Bowman, legal member is Arturo Guillermo Velasquez and under-served and protected-classes member is Faythe Clark.