The DFI team’s experience touches on a range of development finance tools that are designed to attract private investment into local community and economic development projects including:

• Targeted financing (Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Municipal Service Districts (MSDs), etc.)
• Tax credit financing (historic preservation, new markets, brown fields, low-income housing, etc.)
• Loan funds (revolving loan funds, emergency loan programs for small businesses, microenterprise loans, and innovative debt and equity hybrid products such as shared equity homeownership, etc.)
• Secondary market and securitization programs (loan loss reserve funds, supporting the growth of secondary markets)
• Equity (community development venture capital)
• Federal programs

For more information about UNC DFI and its services, contact Marcia Perritt at (919) 600-7874 or mperritt@sog.unc.edu.

UNC DFI services support implementation of local community and economic development priorities that require private investment. DFI can be thought of as an extension of a local government’s planning, finance, economic and community development departments. DFI services include:

• Assessment of distressed properties
• Creation of requests for proposals (RFPs) to attract private development into underserved areas
• Real estate finance and structuring, including identification of investors, lenders, tax credit equity sources and other partners
• Advising on public-private partnerships and development incentives
• Assistance with pre-development including market value, cost assumptions, project budgets, operating statements, and marketing data
• Evaluation of development proposals, agreements and contracts
• Assessment of developer experience and capacity
• Development of small business finance programs, including revolving loan funds
• Opportunity Zones
• Receivership

For more information about UNC DFI and its services, contact Marcia Perritt at (919) 600-7874 or mperritt@sog.unc.edu.