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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” Setting the Table for Affordable Housing. See, for example, Wells v.

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Getting Ready for Grants, Part 3: Writing Compliance into Your Programs

ResourceAssociates

Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act. 45 CFR 75.113 – Disclosures re: Violations of Criminal Law. GrantSolutions User Account Access. Section 106g of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. All Standing Executive Orders. 45 CFR Part 87 – Equal Treatment for Faith-Based Organizations. File Naming Protocol.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). ” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S.

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The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

Social Pinpoint

One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System

The Lowe Down

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).