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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.” 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income. Additionally, G.S. Note that G.S. 160A-456 and G.S.

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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

You can then develop strategies to leverage those opportunities to maximize positive outcomes of the project while simultaneously mitigating risk. Using a participatory social research approach often employed in development contexts, SIA can identify deeper, richer information about the community than a traditional stakeholder analysis.