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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED. Behind the headline are a host of issues that both foster hope in how to address affordable housing needs and the realization of the many steps it may take to get there. Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state.

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The Use of Housing Choice Vouchers in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

More than 5 million low-income people across the country use Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers to help subsidize their housing costs. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Vouchers work as intended in making housing affordable for those low-income households, who typically spend about 30 percent of their income on rent.

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How changes to Fair Market Rent affects access to affordable housing for extremely low-income renters

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing Choice Vouchers are a critical source of funding for North Carolina’s lowest income renters to access affordable housing. 1] The program works by requiring voucher holders to pay a third of their income, while HUD covers the remaining portion of the housing costs.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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LocalGov Drupal on AWS serves as a digital transformation resource for local governments

AWS Public Sector Blog

Brighton & Hove council had already signed up to the Local Digital Declaration in 2018 , which encouraged councils to collaborate on digital projects. Brighton & Hove and Croydon are councils that are mature in their use of Drupal, with in-house developers. Croydon, in turn, would share improvements with Brighton & Hove.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. However, the bills they drafted are vastly different. 30 to keep the government funded and fully open for business.

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

22, 2018, until Jan. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed. Our assessment of the most recent shutdown —which lasted a historic 35 days from Dec.

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