Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. However, the bills they drafted are vastly different. 30 to keep the government funded and fully open for business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From the article: During a worsening housing affordability crisis, New York City landlords are keeping tens of thousands of rent-stabilized units off the market — a phenomenon tenant activists call “warehousing.” The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) repealed both vacancy bonuses and vacancy decontrol.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 17, 2021

The NYU Furman Center analyzed several housing indicators to gain deeper insight into the initial impacts of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA). This will help to create a more detailed understanding of COVID-19’s impact on multifamily rental housing as well.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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Bang the Table

APRIL 22, 2022

With the British government’s social housing white paper published just a few weeks prior, social housing provider Catalyst ® launched The Garden – an online community platform that enables tenant participation and provides real-time customer feedback. How much is the social housing white paper a driver of what you are doing?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2022

See also Maureen Berner’s post on mobile homes as a significant source of affordable housing in NC. DFI in the news: The Well revisits one of the 2019 stops of the Tar Heel Bus Tour, downtown Kannapolis, and describes DFI’s work there and the City’s successful revitalization effort. unc.live/3SEV3f6. unc.live/3eAcyP7.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 21, 2024

Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events. In total, 120 people attended these open houses, which were broadly advertised and centrally located, with only 44 completing surveys.

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CarahCast

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In January, the White House released Memo M-22-09 that mandated, "Federal security teams and data teams work together to develop data categories and security rules to automatically detect and ultimately block unauthorized access to sensitive information."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The 2001 recession was concentrated in tech; the 2008-9 recession in housing. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020. So, what has changed and what has been different since 2020?

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, where, among other duties, she provided advice and guidance to the Army Chief of Staff on all Army healthcare matters. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. Nadja currently serves on the boards of Johnson & Johnson, Nucor Corp.,

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 3, 2023

The optical connector housing is also elastically deformed by physical contact technology that presses the ferrules together to maintain a stable connection. In 2019, an SC type MCF connector was developed that realises the same principle with a simplified structure (2) (Fig. IWCS 2019, 8-1 (2019). IWCS2012, 17-2 (Nov.,

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing. According to a report from Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley earlier this year, “ between 2008 and 2019, 80 percent of (affordable housing) developments layered between four to eight sources of funding (including equity).”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. But since we moved here in Fall 2019 it's only gotten worse--partly because I am now more familiar at a granular level of the b.s. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. And the commercial real estate market is tanking because of work from home, but the CRE market likely isn't top of mind the way housing sales are.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

E.g., DC paid to repave the street behind our house, while knowing that Pepco was scheduled to tear up for re-laying of transmission lines, but because the money was allocated they went ahead.) autonomy and relieve the federal treasury ," Washington Post ). Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In this post, we analyze New York State ERAP applications and the demographic, economic, and housing characteristics of the ZIP Codes where renters have filed applications as of August 31, 2021. Source: 2015-2019 5-year American Community Survey and New York State ERAP Application Figures as of 8/31/21 (NY OTDA), NYU Furman Center.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Rises in inequality do not seem to cause backsliding.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 4, 2022

In 2019-20, almost 2 million households in England had one or more people with a health condition that required adaptations to their homes. This discretionary approach will help more people benefit from housing improvements, without the need to wait for several years.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. “I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Citing this data and its desire to broaden housing opportunities for residents receiving the federal vouchers, the City enacted an ordinance that made it an unlawful discriminatory practice for a landlord to use "any requirement of a public assistance program as a motivating factor" to refuse to sell, rent, or lease real property.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2023

A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. Adjudicators can quickly find what they need, clearing backlogs and moving application approvals and denials through faster. Defining Digital. Digital-first efforts are underway in government agencies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. Although states and localities can step in with interim funding to keep them open. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Trails access, mountain and electric bikes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 8, 2024

This disparity not only violates the principles of Equal Protection and Fair Housing laws but also contributes to deepening the divide in housing affordability, placing a heavier financial burden on Black households and potentially affecting the long-term value of their properties.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. Glass collection container in Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City I gave them a bunch of ideas. And it's not particularly systematic. Putting messages on the area garbage trucks, sponsoring NPR, promoting events, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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