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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
APRIL 2, 2024
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. Department of Commerce announces new grants to improve publicly-owned buildings and facilities in rural downtowns.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 25, 2024
Rural hospitals are going out of business at a high rate leaving many communities without close by medical care (" Saving Rural Hospitals - The Crisis in Rural Health Care ," " Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units ," New York Times ), or getting bought up by private equity. Idaho News 2 ICBS) photo.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The problem with equilibrium or shrinkage is that personnel is the biggest cost for cities, and wages go up not down, not to mention the issue with retirees and pensions--typically local governments may stint on wages but in return offer great pensions often with health care, but these are underfunded creating significant financial overhang.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JANUARY 16, 2024
Originally, the system was used to promote economic development through tax incentives for new or expanding businesses. What is the Tier system used for? The tier system helped target those incentives to the most distressed areas of the state. Where Are We Now? The 2024 Tier Designations and the Data Behind Them The N.C.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. And the State governments can vary wildly on their support.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MAY 31, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. 3 This business model is very complex. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). a purchase vs. refinancing loan) or amount.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
Businesses developed out of university-based research. Another element is business spinoffs from university-based research--medical, pharmaceutical, engineering, business, IT. I remember when I went to UM, Eastern Michigan University in next door Ypsilanti was touted for moving their business school to the Downtown.
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