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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Davis, John E., Davis, John E.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

The largest portion of funding land banks across the country receive comes from their local governments, and that amount does not cover the scope of the problem land banks are expected to address.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. But it is also a management failure of local government. The director then, Mark R.

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The Benefits of Community Engagement for Universities and Colleges

Social Pinpoint

For the universities, working with Ipswich City Council meant that they could have access to the streets within the local government area and set up heat sensors, while also tapping into the council’s local network to raise awareness of the project.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S. 105-286 , discounts under G.S.

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Space needle thinking: Seattle, seizing opportunity, and transformational projects action planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Flickr photo by John Smatlak.