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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). It’s important to be strategic to promote relationship synergy and maximize benefits for both parties (White 2011).

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011. It is Mary's mission to ensure fair and equal housing access to all members of every community. She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011. Episode transcript available here: [link].

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011. It is Mary's mission to ensure fair and equal housing access to all members of every community. She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011.

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI). While somewhat dated, it nonetheless highlights the fact rural areas in North Carolina have been losing grocery stores over time. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

594, 607 (2011). 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income. 160D-1311(a)(2) is limited in scope to “community development programs and activities,” then what does “community development” mean?