North Carolina law doesn’t classify a family care home as an institution. It treats it as a residential use of property — a house, in a neighborhood, that a neighborhood can’t zone out. That isn’t a technicality. It’s the whole idea.
Update · September 9, 2026
A house, in a neighborhood
North Carolina law treats a family care home as a residential use of property. That isn't a technicality.
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