Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

It is the only national community development conference dedicated specifically to reusing “ blighted ” properties—what we call vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties. When : October 9-11, 2024. There is an optional service project (a creative placemaking installation on a vacant lot) happening in the morning.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

If you’re wondering “What can I do about vacant properties in my community?” Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. Identify untapped market potential to build stronger housing markets. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

You find a local home repair program and help your parents fill out an application, only to find out that they do not qualify because they do not have legal ownership—or title —to the house. The owner’s grandson, who grew up and lived in the house with his grandmother, wanted to buy the property to keep it in his family.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, there are many more pieces on this broad topic as I was trying to figure things out. -- " The community development approach and the revitalization of DC's H Street corridor: congruent or oppositional approaches? Park Pride, the Atlanta area friends of the parks organization, has an annual conference.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc., And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 10, 2025

As housing costs rise, developers and homebuyers alike are looking for affordable property options. Some are turning to land banks public entities with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals. For example, see: St.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. Local government must designate itself as a housing authority. No referendum is required for cities.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Recently, I have worked with a group of community members interested in the preservation of the community.We A major part of the process is looking into affordable housing and mixed-use properties, restoring medical and retail infrastructure. Whats one thing you love about your community? I love Memphis BBQ!

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This triggered the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) a unique law that requires companies. In 2019, Stellantis (then known as Fiat Chrysler) announced a $2.5 billion plan to expand and modernize two of its auto assembly plants in Detroit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2025

Federal law requires these awards to be managed and distributed by national intermediaries; HUDs own guidance for these awards, which are meant to provide support for capacity-building and community development, requires recipients to advance housing justice and support underserved communities.

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