Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

AUGUST 31, 2022

Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina : School of Government faculty and staff from the Development Finance Initiative (DFI) will jointly host a seminar to focus on local government support and public-private partnerships for workforce residential housing. July 2022. Learn more and register: ow.ly/s2bf50KhNSp.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

North Carolina suffers from a lack of affordable housing options for low and moderate income households. In a May 2022 post , Tyler outlined many of the ways in which North Carolina’s local governments can aid the development of privately owned affordable housing.

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zencity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Local government officials have just encountered one of the biggest public health emergencies of their careers. Over the course of 2022, the Zencity team attended nearly 70 government conferences across 22 states. Here are our top picks for the best 2023 local government conferences to attend: 1.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

A significant benefit of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) for North Carolina CED professionals is the availability of funding for investment in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure though the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRS). Where and how is that local government money being invested?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 30, 2022

Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina : In case you missed it: Follow the thread here for insight from the School of Government affordable housing training offered in partnership with @sog_ced Development Finance Initiative (DFI), ncIMPACT Initiative, and the NC Association of Regional Councils of Government.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This blog post is the first in a regular series aimed at informing local government partners about current conditions facing private developers and development projects in their communities. 2] While prices have moderated since their peak in 2022, they remain about 42% above pre-COVID levels. Louis FRED Economic Data.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 31, 2022

Community land trusts – where land is owned by community and only the structure is sold to homebuyer – touted as an affordable housing solution used around the world. April 2022. Chapel Hill example offered: bit.ly/3wfvUO6. Which areas of NC are growing fastest? Read more and register to attend: unc.live/3NoFpBu.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Optimization of our customers’ energy efficiency in the housing with heating and cooling, enables us to further optimize our production of clean energy through the plants. The AWS-powered solution enables higher energy efficiency and optimization of clean energy across the City of Stockholm.

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First State Insights

MARCH 16, 2022

Ellory Monks, co-founder of The Atlas, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, about major opportunities and challenges the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) presents for state and local governments.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even at a time of record low housing supply, vacant and deteriorated properties—referred to by some as “blighted properties,” though the Center for Community Progress and others consider the term harmful and problematic*—exist in every community. See The Empty House Next Door for more information.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S. public sector customers.

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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

Deadline to Apply March 31, 2022

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

These posts are meant to inform local governments about current conditions facing private developers and development projects in their communities. 2] While prices have moderated since their peak in 2022, they remain about 42% above pre-COVID levels. 1] Source: National Multifamily Housing Council.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) is the nation’s largest land bank, with over 75,000 properties in its inventory as of 2022. The largest portion of funding land banks across the country receive comes from their local governments, and that amount does not cover the scope of the problem land banks are expected to address.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 8, 2024

And in 2022, the tribe opened a transitional housing facility for individuals and families escaping domestic violence. It can house up to 10 families. This article appeared in our guide, “ State and Local: Making an Impact.” The program offers cultural healing through classes in traditional arts.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

Your community is facing different challenges in 2024 than it was in 2007, and even in 2022. With 1,000 attendees representing local governments, academia, law, planning, vendors, and more, RVP is one of the only opportunities community leaders like you get to build a network across the country. The sessions at RVP reflect that!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

Strengthening the city around buildings with meaning and architectural character is the way to go (" Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure "). They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

For more details about local government grant seeking, check out this blog post. But as I moved into work with nonprofits, I realized that outside of local governments, many organizations do not take advantage of the assistance provided by their elected officials. They can help with support letters.

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Center for Community Progress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As executive administrator for the Louisville Metro Government’s (LMG) Codes and Regulations department, Crowe took pride in the fact that his department treated all properties with housing and building code violations the same, regardless of property owner, type, or neighborhood. The policy’s intent was to ensure fairness.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But that message isn’t getting through to our local government. Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond. As we talked to close to 200 Grays Ferry residents, the stories poured in.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This blog provides an update on a new Interim Final Rule for the American Rescue Plan Act State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (ARPA SLFRF). To quote Treasury directly, “ (T)he existing eligible uses, as discussed in the 2022 final rule, remain unchanged. For background on ARPA SLFRF, please visit the U.S.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health held last fall, a commitment was made to invest in local community and economic development to increase access to food (see page 12 of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health presented at the Conference).

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. Without any exclusions or exemptions, Tina’s 2022 property tax bill would be $3,500.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But it is also a management failure of local government. Admittedly, oversight-wise, WMATA has a hard slog, as the State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and DC are "co-owners" now alongside the federal government. They all have to agree on major decisions. (For And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

2022 saw flooding, drought and severe. We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) commitment and time. commitment and time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

in parts of New England, Washington State, California, Maryland, etc.). -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 Transformational Projects Action Planning.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Special Funding. Individual schools need a program to systematically build relationships with their neighborhood. but it fell off.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 18, 2023

The news caps off a rocky 2022 for the tech sector, which saw upward of 140,000 employees fall prey to global economic headwinds and corporate rightsizing after years of steady growth. The White House budget for fiscal 2023 also includes a proposal to hire more than 80,000 new workers, focusing in particular on HR technologists.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 18, 2023

The news caps off a rocky 2022 for the tech sector, which saw upward of 140,000 employees fall prey to global economic headwinds and corporate rightsizing after years of steady growth. The White House budget for fiscal 2023 also includes a proposal to hire more than 80,000 new workers, focusing in particular on HR technologists. .

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No government material). Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No government material). The CFE Fund’s national Bank On platform supports local coalition and financial institution efforts to connect consumers to safe, affordable bank accounts: [link]. No claim to original U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy.

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