Center for Community Progress

JUNE 17, 2022

Eisenberg , associate professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, discusses the unique challenges and approaches to addressing vacancy in rural communities. The post Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy appeared first on Center for Community Progress. In this chapter, Ann M.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. The School of Government property tax law expert, Chris McLaughlin, evaluates possible bias in property tax appeals. unc.live/3SEV3f6.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a result of working with many communities struggling under the weight of vacant, abandoned, and dilapidated properties, APC and the Law Clinic joined forces to develop a toolkit that would help local governments. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. in West Virginia.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. Decker, Andrew.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is not a comprehensive treatment, but instead outlines—in broad terms—some of the federal and state laws and processes that govern conduit bond financing for multifamily affordable housing projects in North Carolina. 6] Municipal or County Housing Authority – G.S. 157-9(a) ; G.S. 157-33 , -34.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's why Friendship Heights in DC isn't doing so great retail-wise (" Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ") and why DC can't really develop a strong retail center in the core. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to economic development.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

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.” 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v. Housing Authorities Law. Chapter 157).

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The emphasis on social equity will create significant economic opportunities for Black and Brown entrepreneurs and minority workers within the state. # # #. About ConnCORP ConnCORP seeks to drive economic development in the Dixwell and Newhallville sections of New Haven by investing in local commercial and residential real estate.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Instead, my goal is to discuss a related question of law: If the General Assembly chose to expand the circuit breaker, could it constitutionally do so in a way that allowed for variety in its application across the state?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. --and they collect special monies to pay for it. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

The laws and regulations creating the metropolitan planning organization process for transportation planning under the auspices and requirements of the US Department of Transportation should be modified to have such requirements for stadiums and arenas, (and airports) among other uses.

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The City Fix

JULY 30, 2024

When you hear “infrastructure,” most people naturally think of the physical built environment — roads, bridges, buildings. There’s a lot less emphasis on other kinds of infrastructure that are equally as important, like civic infrastructure. Civic infrastructure encompasses a broad.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

There is no case law interpreting G.S. Melanie Crenshaw is a School of Government faculty member focusing on m agistrates (civil law), landlord/tenant issues, and small claims. 42-12 to guide judicial officials on its enforcement. Residential Rental Agreements Act: Tenant Rights and Obligations.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alison Cusack is the Founder and Principal Lawyer of Cusack & Co Pty Ltd ([link] an innovative and forward-thinking maritime law firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Alison Cusack is the Founder and Principal Lawyer of Cusack & Co Pty Ltd ([link] an innovative and forward-thinking maritime law firm based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Barrett & Greene

APRIL 4, 2023

by Greg LeRoy Executive Director, , Good Job , s First , a nonprofit watchdog group on economic development incentives. Combined with elements of the Inflation Reduction Act that augur in favor of domestic manufacturing, the two laws are signaling that the “economic war among the states” or “race to the bottom” is a losers’ game.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs. Leveraging higher education institutions for urban economic development. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc., I don't know about UT.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 21, 2025

This post, co-authored by Kristina Wilson and Tyler Mulligan, also appeared on the Coates’ Canons Local Government Law Blog here. The open meetings law requires all official meetings of public bodies to be open to the public. 708 (1996) as described in a law review article ( here ) and summarized in a blog post ( here ).

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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. 1] Local government legal authority to offer home repair loans is limited under state law. 42 USC 5301(c). 570.200(a)(3).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 13, 2025

For a long time and for obvious reasons DC has been focused on the federal government as its primary economic engine, along with the trade associations, law firms, lobbyists, and related groups that seek benefits, provide services, etc. Diversifying DC's Economy. DC proper needs to continue to focus on diversifying its economy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

And such modes are often as much about economic development as they are about transit. This is a great explication of the network concept applied to biking. From the c. I make the point that it is the difference between intra-district mobility and inter-district. A streetcar serves a sub-district of a city, usually.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

Kendall Green at Gallaudet was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. A "division of the preservation movement" is the Main Street commercial district revitalization program , which links economic development with historic preservation focused on the revival of local commercial districts and downtowns in smaller communities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

From the AP story, " Trump restricts federal research funding, a lifeblood for colleges ": It looks like much of the playbook is intimidation, more so than actual substantiated legal findings, said Michael Pillera, director of educational equity issues at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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