Burlington schedules public hearings on 2026-27 housing, development plan
Burlington will weigh $2.15 million in federal housing money at hearings set for late May and July, with comments due July 6. Past plans steered aid toward homeowner repairs and affordable housing.
Burlington is putting its 2026-27 housing and development budget before residents with $489,903 in Community Development Block Grant money and $1,655,334 in HOME funds on the line. The city’s draft Annual Action Plan, the document it sends to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for these programs, will be the blueprint for where that federal money goes in Burlington and across the five-county HOME Consortium that includes Alamance, Caswell, Davidson, Randolph and Rockingham counties.
City Council will take public comment at two neighborhood meetings first, then at two formal hearings. The first meeting is set for Tuesday, May 26, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at North Park Library, 849 Sharpe Road. The second will be Thursday, May 28, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at May Memorial Library, 342 S. Spring Street. Formal public hearings will follow on Tuesday, June 2, and Tuesday, July 7, both at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chamber inside the Municipal Building, 425 South Lexington Avenue.
The comment window opens June 3 and runs through Monday, July 6. Written comments go to Kimberly Kemp at the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, and copies of the draft are available at the Burlington Planning Department and online. The city said the draft may still be revised, and it will provide reasonable accommodations for disabled attendees if requested at least 48 hours in advance.
What changes on the ground depends on how Burlington steers those dollars. The CDBG program is a formula grant meant to support decent housing, suitable living environments and expanded economic opportunity for low- and moderate-income residents. In the previous 2025-26 plan, Burlington said CDBG would focus on homeowner rehabilitation, with slightly less than 15% reserved for public services. HOME money was split between homeowner rehabilitation and a request for proposals tied to affordable housing development and preservation.
That matters in Alamance County, where the earlier plan said 46% of renters were rent-burdened and housing affordability remained a major regional need across all five consortium counties. Burlington’s 2024-28 Consolidated Plan, later amended to include HOME, was shaped by input from residents, nonprofit organizations, housing providers and other stakeholders. This round of hearings will decide whether the next budget keeps that balance or shifts federal housing money toward different neighborhoods, different repairs and different kinds of projects.
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