The Receipts:

CAPER Data, Year by Year

This is where I track Wake County’s use of federal housing funds — showing clearly who benefits and who’s left out.

$78 Million. Zero to Black-Owned Businesses.

These aren’t my opinions…these are Wake County receipts.

$42,532,460 in contracts.

$0 went to Black-owned businesses.

(Source: 2024–2025 Wake County CAPER, Contracting Table)

$30 million spent.

1.7 % of jobs to given to low-income residents.

(Source: 2024–2025 Wake County CAPER, Section 3 Labor Hours Report)

$35,655,813 in subcontracts.

100% of funding to White men and women.

(Source: 2024–2025 Wake County CAPER, Section 3 Quarterly Reports)

229 homes repaired.

Only 16 were Black households.

(Source: 2024–2025 Wake County CAPER, Housing Rehabilitation Outcomes)

Wake County’s own CAPER shows the full picture:

  • $42.5M in contracts → 100% to White-owned firms.

  • $35.6M in subcontracts → 91% to White-owned firms,

    • 9% to Hispanic-owned.

  • $0 to Black-owned, Asian-owned, or Native-owned businesses.

Source: Wake County 2024–2025 CAPER, Table 8 (pg 17) — Minority & Women Business Enterprises

$78 M in Contracts.

96% went to White-Owned Companies.

$35.6M in Sub-Contracts to 91% White-Owned businesses

Indicating the dollar value of sub-contracts in Millions for HOME projects completed during the 2024-2025 reporting period.

$42.5 Million Contracts Black/Latino/Asian/Native-owned = 0%

According to Wake County’s official 2024–2025 CAPER, every dollar in HOME project contracts — $42.5 million — went to White-owned firms. Not a single Black-, Latino-, Asian-, or Native-owned business received a contract.

Black-owned, Asian-owned, or Native-owned businesses? Zero. Not one contract.

That’s millions of dollars that could have built wealth, stabilized families, and strengthened communities — but it was funneled in one direction.

This isn’t equity. This is exclusion with a paper trail.