Areas of Expertise

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, 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 grant programs
  • CDBG
  • HUD
  • EDA

For more information about DFI and its services, contact Marcia Perritt at (919) 538-1545 or mperritt@sog.unc.edu.