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SEVEN REASONS FOR THANKS ON THURSDAY

Barrett & Greene

In May of 2023, Vermont lawmakers passed comprehensive legislation that has already shown great promise in altering the situation that Vermont families, the state’s workforce and businesses have faced. From Route Fifty: A Vermont solution could serve as a national model for childcare action.

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Across its various grant programs, EDA made 175 awards in North Carolina totaling more than $203 million from 2018 to early 2024. The legislation authorizes funding for EDA programs through fiscal year 2029 contingent on the availability of Congressional appropriations.

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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

A property is in Financial Distress if it meets at least one of the following criteria: Foreclosure Activity – The property received a foreclosure notice (lis pendens or auction filing) between 2018 and 2021, 18 indicating that the owner fell behind on mortgage payments and is at risk of foreclosure. 2,578 properties (.52%

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From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The new right to buy legislation can help shift the balance of power in less well-off areas, where local development has too often meant more betting shops or fast food outlets. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Market-Improving Reforms (Part 4 of 4)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

By 2012, delinquencies had peaked, and Ed DeMarco, then the agency’s long-term acting director, [5] announced that, as Congress was not making any substantive progress on legislatively replacing or modifying F&F, [6] he would begin to move the two companies forward by implementing key reforms.

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Bill and the Future of Community Development

Next City

It’s currently scheduled to expire at the end of next year, but the new legislation would make the program permanent. These include the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the New Markets Tax Credit ; the former is already permanent, and the latter would become permanent with the passage of this new legislation. How much more?

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Opioid and Fentanyl Legislation Under Consideration in Congress 

NLC (National League of Cities)

The SUPPORT Act, signed into law in 2018, aimed to tackle the opioid crisis by expanding on the previous work done through the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and the 21st Century Cures Act.