Welcome to the City of Whiteville Website.
We hope that this site will provide you with important information about our city. Whiteville, a family-oriented community, has many resources that make it a wonderful place to live, work, or just visit. We have a new recreation center that has many on-going activities for both the young and the young at heart. We are located within 45 minutes of the North Carolina and South Carolina Coast, where one can always find a lot of fun things to do. No matter what your style, you will find it in Whiteville or close by.
Whiteville boasts a low tax rate coupled with great city services, and has a wide range of businesses and health care facilities. Our staff is eager to provide both service and information to those who request it, and are dedicated to constantly improving services that help make our city a wonderful place to live. If you do not find the information you are looking for within this site, please call City Hall at 910-642-8046 for a personal response to your inquiry.
Thank you for visiting our website. We hope that you can visit in person soon and see why we are so proud of our city. We believe that once you have had a chance to learn a little more about our community, and the services that the City provides to its citizens, that you will agree that the City of Whiteville is The Best Little City in the USA.
Articles by Joshua W. Ray, Whiteville City Manager
Government of the People - Part One
Government of the People - Part Two
Government of the People - Part Three
PUBLIC NOTICE
The City of Whiteville has received CDBG funds from the North Carolina Division of Community Assistance for a Revitalization Strategies Program targeting the Westside Neighborhood.
One of the conditions of the city’s grant agreement with the state is that the city takes steps to affirmatively further fair housing. The city has adopted a Fair Housing Policy and will distribute information about fair housing to banks and realtors in the area.
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibits discriminatory housing practices on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. The law governs rental property and sales transactions, and applies to individuals as well as lending institutions.
In 1988, Congress passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act. This law expanded "discriminatory housing practice" to include discrimination against families with young children and the handicapped. Additionally, the new law makes it easier for complaints to be reviewed at the local and state level and strengthens the enforcement process.
North Carolina has adopted a state Fair Housing Act which reflects the federal laws described above, and which also makes it easier for individuals in municipalities like Craven County to file complaints concerning discriminatory housing practices.
The City of Whiteville’s Fair Housing Policy establishes a procedure for handling complaints concerning housing discrimination at the local level. If any citizen of the county experiences discrimination in housing because of race, color, sex, religion, handicap, or national origin, they may contact Mr. Joshua Ray, City Manager at the Whiteville City Hall, (910)-642-8046. The city does not have a TDD number; however, if any individual wishing such assistance will call 911 and indicate the need for TDD assistance, the city will then arrange such assistance. Complaints will be reviewed and forwarded to the North Carolina Human Relations Commission in Raleigh (TDD#919/733-7996) for further review and conciliation.
Complaints concerning discriminatory housing practices can also be forwarded directly to the North Carolina Human Relations Commission, 116 W. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27611 (by telephone: 919/733-7996).