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What @sog_ced is reading online: April 2023

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

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. office vacancy rate is 12.9%, higher than during the 2008 recession, and expected to worsen. 41kaSvZ U.S.

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Lax Regulation Doesn’t Fully Explain Unsafe Buildings in African Cities: A View from Ghana

The City Fix

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unfortunately, US economic development planning is more about "trickle down" rather than focused approaches to addressing low income pockets within otherwise successful areas. Which infuses two articles outlining a revitalization strategy for St, Louis, and a brief follow up: -- St.

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What’s a Capital Stack and How Does it Work?

CRA Today

At some point in your journey as a Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) officer, you will likely find yourself involved in a community-based public-private partnership economic development project. Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Local government support is crucial to successful CLTs, and strategies vary between municipalities (Davis and Jacobus 2008). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008. Working Paper, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy , 2008. How do local governments in these states support CLTs ? Davis, John E., Davis, John E.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

In China, there was a 15% decline in Registered Newborn Babies in 2020, and because of this trend, “the country’s population is aging more quickly than most of the world’s developed economies, a hangover from decades of family planning policies” (Bloomberg).

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening.

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