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Community and Economic Development – Blog by UNC School of Government https://ced.sog.unc.edu What @sog_ced is reading online: June 2022By CED News and Social MediaPublished June 30, 2022
Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina: In case you missed it: Follow the thread here for insight from the School of Government affordable housing training offered in partnership with @sog_ced Development Finance Initiative (DFI), ncIMPACT Initiative, and the NC Association of Regional Councils of Government. Local government recipients of NC Department of Commerce Rural Transformation grants (with American Rescue Plan Act funding) for downtown and neighborhood revitalization. bit.ly/3a2e61W A UNC graduate-level course connected with @sog_ced Development Finance Initiative gives students the opportunity to apply community revitalization methods to real-world projects in NC communities. Have a project idea for students? Submit now: unc.live/3NfTxg2 DFI in the news: DFI project yields 50 new affordable housing units in downtown Rocky Mount. Developer Woda Cooper breaks ground on $9.4M private affordable housing project financed by 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Collaboration involved City of Rocky Mount, NC Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA), and NC Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR). bit.ly/3Qf44uH Other CED Items: Local governments across the nation manage emergency home repair programs for lower income owners. Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) reviews the structure and funding of these programs. bit.ly/3OMYnCu A JCHS study of low-income homebuyers found that 1/3 had repair costs they couldn’t afford, and homeowners of color were more likely to report little or no spending on home improvement projects that could increase the value of their homes. We’re watching this trend reported by JCHS in State of Nation’s Housing report: Rental property prices surged in 2021 and hit a 20-year high in early 2022, growing 22.5% year-over-year and pushing capitalization rates to a new low of 3.9%. bit.ly/3Odjleb Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….” May 2022 |
Published June 30, 2022 By CED News and Social Media
The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.
Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina:
In case you missed it: Follow the thread here for insight from the School of Government affordable housing training offered in partnership with @sog_ced Development Finance Initiative (DFI), ncIMPACT Initiative, and the NC Association of Regional Councils of Government.
Local government recipients of NC Department of Commerce Rural Transformation grants (with American Rescue Plan Act funding) for downtown and neighborhood revitalization. bit.ly/3a2e61W
A UNC graduate-level course connected with @sog_ced Development Finance Initiative gives students the opportunity to apply community revitalization methods to real-world projects in NC communities. Have a project idea for students? Submit now: unc.live/3NfTxg2
DFI in the news:
DFI project yields 50 new affordable housing units in downtown Rocky Mount. Developer Woda Cooper breaks ground on $9.4M private affordable housing project financed by 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Collaboration involved City of Rocky Mount, NC Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA), and NC Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR). bit.ly/3Qf44uH
Other CED Items:
Local governments across the nation manage emergency home repair programs for lower income owners. Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) reviews the structure and funding of these programs. bit.ly/3OMYnCu
A JCHS study of low-income homebuyers found that 1/3 had repair costs they couldn’t afford, and homeowners of color were more likely to report little or no spending on home improvement projects that could increase the value of their homes.
We’re watching this trend reported by JCHS in State of Nation’s Housing report: Rental property prices surged in 2021 and hit a 20-year high in early 2022, growing 22.5% year-over-year and pushing capitalization rates to a new low of 3.9%. bit.ly/3Odjleb
Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….” May 2022
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