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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The shift to remote work, whether universal or not, represents a significant challenge for public officials focused on economic development. Any discussion about economic development incentives must begin with the state constitution. Economic development subsidies have long been prohibited. 304 (2010).

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.

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How the Census Undercounts Will Impact CED Work

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

This group was undercounted by almost 5 percent, three times greater than in the 2010 Census. These latter two undercounts are about the same percentages as in 2010. The 2020 percent undercounted for Blacks was a little over 3 percent, and the percent undercount of Native Americans living on reservations was about 5.5

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. 363) Social capital matters.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

About Center for Community Progress : Founded in 2010, the Center for Community Progress is the national leader for building strong, equitable communities where vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are transformed into assets for neighbors and neighborhoods. For more information, visit milandbank.org.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places?

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, " Residents offered free health checks in libraries ," BBC and " Creative library project underway in Wilmington to spur community and economic development ," Wilmington News-Journal. Library staff in SF hold a press conference and protest about understaffing. Photo: Martin do Nascimento, KQED.

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