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Episode 5: Community Action and Partnerships Prevails as Banks Mobilize to Respond to COVID-19

CRA Today

How can we leverage programs and services provided by social service agencies, federal health clinics and community action agencies to meet the foundational needs of the most economically vulnerable? How can we partner with CDFIs to extend the traditional boundaries of capital where it is most needed?

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In addition to funding these mandated programs and services, each county also has statutory authority to create and fund optional, non-mandated social services programs. Foundational Considerations Before addressing social services funding, it’s important to consider two basic requirements for spending public funds.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

As so many of us are working with our banks to support our local communities recover and re-open yet CRA Reform is now at the forefront, especially for the OCC regulated entities. This episode highlights CRA modernization, interagency positions, politics and coronavirus recovery efforts. . CRA Reform-Timing and Political Considerations .

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After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Statutes regulate where security deposits are held, how they are used by the landlord, and how much the landlord can collect. Since the Security Deposit Act is related to other landlord-tenant issues explored here, it is appropriate to address some issues that may arise after Helene. 42-50, -51. Section 4B.7.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result.

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AWS supports Connecting for Better Health with the 2025 IMAGINE Grant to advance data exchange in health and social care

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Community Sandbox aims to increase health and social services data quality, promote transparency among and across social and health systems, and replace laborious, point-to-point testing and troubleshooting with an always-learning, agile testing network.

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

That New Deal meant that the government would no longer work simply to promote business, but would regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure. In the 1930s, to combat the Great Depression, Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had offered a “new deal for the American people.”