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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

While it is not focused on North Carolina or local governments, I think there is still much in there that is likely of interest to you all. Especially because we all know that what happens at the state level impacts the local level. Joe is a nationally recognized expert on state and local business tax policy.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

1) Have several, if not all of the four government mortgage agencies, 6 strongly support and subsidize “chattel loans” (i.e., 3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. percent.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. I found additional advocacy approaches designed to support a claim that MH structures will appreciate much like site-built structure-plus-land housing.

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