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High Country poll seeks input on housing preferences

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM EST
Courtesy of Appalachian State University
An aerial view of Boone

The High Country Council of Governments is asking for feedback on what kind of housing people in the region want.

The anonymous survey created by Appalachian State University researchers asks people about what designs they prefer for single-family houses, high-density apartments, low-density apartments and other styles of homes.

It also asks about housing challenges like affordability and neighborhood safety.

Some mountain communities, including Boone and Blowing Rock, are struggling to address a lack of affordable housing.

A market report from North Carolina High Country Real Estate found that the median sales price for single-family, condo and townhouse properties was over $550,000 in October.

That figure was based on home sales in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery and Watauga counties.
Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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