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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). It’s important to be strategic to promote relationship synergy and maximize benefits for both parties (White 2011).

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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, the French government passed legislation transforming the healthcare system by establishing a digital health space (ENS). Ireland has taken a proactive approach to enabling better use of health data while protecting patient privacy through legislation like the Data Protection Act 2018 , which aligns with GDPR.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Its replacement with a long and rambling piece of ad hoc legislation that veers from the draconian to the incomprehensible and back again is more reminiscent of North Korea or Belarus than it is of a western democracy. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. government.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. In 2013, the General Assembly took a similarly restrictive approach when it wanted to remedy what it viewed as a defective 2011 reappraisal in Mecklenburg County.

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

4] North Carolina Legislation 1975 , ed. Because we are unlikely to know the applicable rules until months after a disaster occurs, the remainder of this blog post will assume that local government disaster aid will be structured as loans (not grants and not forgivable loans) in order to avoid duplication of benefits issues.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. As part of ensuring that support, the average G-fee at the time was thus kept low – in the 0.20 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.