Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. The state auditor’s new understanding of this much-needed reform allowed Bennet and her colleagues to move forward authoring new property tax sale legislation. If you’re wondering “What can I do about vacant properties in my community?” Couldn’t join us?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works. Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy. Failure to utilise the basic law is an indication that it is not fit for purpose.

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 19, 2024

Heyman Service to America Medals ® program demonstrated innovative strategies for implementing large-scale federal legislation. The team hosted webinars and in-person events, made widespread phone calls, and set and monitored intermediate participation goals.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Let’s work through an example of the circuit breaker math.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. While this exclusion is not very popular across the state, each year there are legislative proposals to expand its reach.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

APRIL 13, 2022

According to the Ninth Circuit in Bonta , California law allows owners of large-capacity magazines to modify them to accept 10 rounds or fewer. 3d 1131 (S.D. Owners also can sell their magazines to firearm dealers or remove them from the state. It observed that 10 sister circuits have adopted a substantially similar two-step test.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Post-Helene, there is not a moratorium on summary ejectment proceedings, although activists and at least two legislators have called upon the legislature, the chief justice, and the governor for such action. There is no case law interpreting G.S. Yet, a judicial official may encounter this situation in an action for summary ejectment.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. ” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. As a result, “[l]andmark rulings protecting competitors at the expense of consumers were pervasive throughout the 1960s.”

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 30, 2021

Support from this event has a tremendous impact on the School of Government’s ability to continue providing advising, education, and support to North Carolina public officials. This is a once-per-year event, and the repetitive receipt of messages will happen only today. Lawrence Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Furman Center Research and Events. The brief highlights the impact of New York’s restrictive zoning on housing supply and the risks of future legislative inaction. In an installment of the “Roads to Recovery” series, PBS News Hour explores Connecticut’s efforts to reform its restrictive land-use laws.

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GovCast

AUGUST 12, 2022

The event also happened just days before President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act into law. Senior Researcher Melissa Harris and Staff Writer Sarah Sybert discuss the top takeaways from the convention and report how these leaders will prepare for and implement the new legislation.

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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. The statutes legislative history is important for understanding its language. 143-318.10(a).

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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. Conservative approach would exclude higher-income individuals; in any event no less than 70% of the funding should be devoted to LMI persons to match federal CDBG requirements. No referendum is required for cities. 42 USC 5301(c).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

Many Earth Day events are organized around tree planting events organized by local and state tree advocacy groups. Texas lawmakers are taking on cedar allergies during the 89th Legislative Session. One is planting trees. Some Utah lawmakers claim overgrown forests suck too much water ," SLT ). Trees as woke.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A presidential administration’s ability to directly manage the mortgage programs and policies of the GSEs was never expected or intended but arose from a series of two unlikely events more than a decade apart. Congress, over time, has created through legislation these two major targeted access-to-credit programs.

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