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Opportunity Zones

  • Federal Opportunity Zones: What Local Governments Need to Know

Receivership

  • Receivership: A New Tool for Addressing Vacant Problem Properties in North Carolina

Historic Properties

  • Local Government Owners of Historic Property Asked to Convey Property by End of 2017: What Public Officials Should Know
  • Sale of Historic Structures by NC Local Governments for Redevelopment

Building Maintenance

  • Maintenance of vacant or neglected commercial buildings: options for NC local governments
  • Periodic Inspections, Permits, and Registration of Residential Rental Property: Changes in 2017
  • Who is an owner “of record” to be served with complaints and orders under NC minimum housing codes?
  • Targeting Troubled Neighborhoods for Housing Code Inspections
  • Ensuring Local Policy Complies with New Residential Inspections Law
  • Minimum Housing: A Way Around Residential Inspection Limits?
  • More foreclosed and vacant homes ahead. How can local governments respond?
  • Repairing unfit houses—and then recouping the costs
  • Foreclosures, abandoned homes, and minimum housing codes

Public Participation

  • Legal and Business Reasons Why Downtown Development Programs Should Involve Secured Loans—Not Grants
  • When May NC Local Governments Pay an Economic Development Incentive?
  • Notice and Hearing Requirements for Economic Development Appropriations
  • Local Government Economic Development Powers “Clarified”
  • Local government assistance for a real estate development project—without making a grant
  • Cash Grants for Real Estate Developers without Competition for Jobs—A Constitutional Quandary
  • NC Local Governments, Meet Your New State Partner for Economic Development
  • Did the NC Supreme Court put cash economic development incentives in jeopardy?
  • Is Interstate Competition Required for Economic Development Incentives?
  • Valid cash incentive or illegal tax rebate?
  • Public Hearings for Cash Incentives: An Unwritten Rule? 

Acquisition and Conveyance

  • Conveyance of property in a public-private partnership for a “downtown development project”
  • Follow Procedures Prior to Acquiring Property for Redevelopment
  • Conveyance of Local Government Property to Nonprofit EDC for Industrial Park
  • Acquiring real property for redevelopment—can local governments keep it confidential?
  • Kelo Revisited: Eminent Domain for Economic Development in North Carolina

Affordable Housing

  • Conveyance of Local Government Property for Affordable Housing
  • Local Government Support for Privately Constructed Affordable Housing
  • A Primer on Inclusionary Zoning

Land Banking

  • How a North Carolina Local Government Can Operate a Land Bank for Redevelopment
  • Taxation of Affordable Housing in Community Land Trusts

Food Deserts

  • Food Deserts and Development Finance Options in North Carolina

Rural Development

  • New Rural Economic Development Division and Other 2013 North Carolina Legislation
  • Identifying Future Leaders in Rural Areas is a Challenge

Urban Redevelopment Areas

  • Using a Redevelopment Area to Attract Private Investment
  • Redevelopment Areas in Action: Sanford, NC
  • Redevelopment Areas in Action: Greenville, NC
  • Redevelopment Areas in Action: Mooresville, NC

Financial Literacy

  • Protect Community Wealth by Increasing Financial Literacy of Adults
  • Investors benefit from financial planners and coaches: Can the poor do the same?
  • Youth Financial Education as an Asset-Building Tactic
  • Financial Literacy: A Necessary Ingredient for Building the Financial Assets of Low-Income Households
  • Savings Programs for Low-Income Households: Overcoming Challenges in Rural Areas
  • Build Financial Assets for Low-income Households by Sponsoring IDA Programs

Local Investment

  • Mission investing by community foundations
  • Venture Capital for Community Economic Development

Arts and Economic Development

  • Arts and Economic Development in Eastern NC — African American Music Trail
  • Arts-based Community & Economic Redevelopment: Artist Relocation Programs

 

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