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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

We're focusing on this today, thanks to a powerful new comptroller's review in New Jersey that points to the municipalities in that state's failure to comply with laws pertaining to leave, "leading to both actual waste and abuse of public funds, as well as substantial future liabilities for these municipalities.”.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. Where have CLTs been established?

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Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

What does this have to do with winning grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)? For example, CEJST uses 2010 data to define census tracts that comprise disadvantaged communities. She returned home, visited her ophthalmologist, and now sports fashion-forward glasses that have transformed her vision. Quite a bit.

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Child Nutrition School Breakfast Program Expansion Grant for U.S. States and the District of Columbia

iGrantWriters

1793), as amended by Section 105 of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-296), authorizes funds to provide grants on a competitive basis to State agencies. Description The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (the Act), Section 23 (42 U.S.C.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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School Breakfast Program Expansion Grant for U.S. Territories

iGrantWriters

1793), as amended by Section 105 of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-296), authorizes funds to provide grants on a competitive basis to State agencies and U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Description The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (the Act), Section 23 (42 U.S.C.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. I had a front-row seat into the harms of auctioning off tax-foreclosed properties , particularly low-value residential properties, but thought, what could be done?