Tag: economic development
What @sog_ced is reading online: September 2020
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 Carolin … Read more
What @sog_ced is reading online: July 2020
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: US D … Read more
A Lesson for CED Professionals on The Tipping Point: When Local Partners Pull Out of Fed and State Programs
Why would you, as a local CED professional, hesitate to bring in a federal or state program to your community? Why do some federal and state programs struggle to recruit and maintain local partnerships? Many federal and state programs rely on community-based partners to implement and/or deliver serv … Read more
The 2019 Hurricane Season Is Here: Now What?
“[I]t is critical to learn from events such as Florence, to minimize the damages and streamline the response and recovery for the next storm…The growing economic and human costs of these events require that we not only change how we respond, but do so far more quickly than we have in the past.” This … Read more
CED and Planning vs Income Inequality Part 1: When Communities Pay the Price
Income inequality is not a new issue for CED professionals. In November 2011, the Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco devoted an issue of its publication, Community Investments,to how income inequality was impacting community development. A Federal Reserve Board governor is quoted in the report, … Read more
New CED Data Resources Keep Rolling Out: The Opportunity Atlas, The Eviction Lab, Every Building in America and A Look Back to How Data Can Help in Disaster Recovery
Data are clearly no longer the purview of academics and government officials writing research reports with five pages of text and one hundred appendixes. This post focuses briefly on several amazing datasets that are available with detailed information for CED professionals, as well as a reminder … Read more
It’s How Much?! Cost of Living Data for NC Counties and Select Cities
North Carolina communities are undergoing rapid economic change at different rates in different parts of the state. Issues such as affordable housing, appropriate rate levels for public services, costs of commuting and wage growth (or stagnation) are now key for CED officials, whether your communit … Read more
Catawba County’s Innovative Water Service Partnership Model
It seems like almost everyone, including regulators and utility organizations, recognize the benefits and need for expanded partnerships and collaboration in the water and wastewater sector. Small towns are finding it difficult to meet their growing infrastructure and regulatory needs and are talkin … Read more
Lessons for CED from Europe: Inclusive Communities and a New City-Run Food Pantry
The photo was eerily familiar to anyone interested in CED. The headline from the New York Times article on September 20, just days before the German national election, read, “Merkel Says Germans ‘Never Had It Better.’ But Many Feel Left Behind.” The accompanying photo by Gordon Welters, shown here … Read more
Student Corner: The Grasshoppers’ Stadium is a Homerun for Downtown Greensboro
When the Greensboro Grasshoppers threw out their first pitch at their new stadium on April 3, 2005, it was still uncertain what the impact of the stadium would be on the greater downtown. The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro took a leap of faith in building the $22.5 million stadium … Read more