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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Parking fees/admissions fees for arenas, stadiums, concert facilities: Fee proposal for Live Nation Pittsburgh opposed by developer

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Marimba Milliones is president and CEO of the Hill Community Development Corporation. At one time, it was proposed a new sports arena would be built there, but instead other development plans are moving forward.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Aging cities usually lack the money to take on this issue at the scale it requires. But they need to be way more purposeful about it.

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Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Salt Lake City?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Tampa Bay, with the worst attendance in the MLB despite significant success on the field, their metropolitan population is almost 2 million residents greater than Salt Lake. -- " Revisiting "Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities" and the Tampa (..)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I like the idea of ten year terms to be able to "force" transportation demand management agreements on teams (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). But that only works if the facility is owned by the team.

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Mapping CED Progress…and Struggle: The 2024 NC County Tier Rankings

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

It is now used to help counties through a wide range of programs, from federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to Job Development and Investment Grants (JDIG). What is the Tier system used for? The tier system helped target those incentives to the most distressed areas of the state.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. 153A-376, both of which were initially enacted to enable local governments to expend Community Development Block Grants (CDBG).