Tag: public-private partnerships
2024 Update: Local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments
Earlier this month, DFI examined how local governments in North Carolina have stepped in to make new affordable housing construction economically viable after a historic increase in construction costs and elevated interest rates. In 2023, local governments contributed nearly $30 million in soft loan … Read more
How local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments
The challenges facing real estate development today are well-known. Construction costs remain 40% higher than pre-COVID levels and increased interest rates have slowed the pace of new projects. A June 2024 survey of the nation’s largest developers found that two-thirds of multifamily projects in the … Read more
How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals
Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. Much more recently, a CED post highlighted the various ways CED professionals interact with food systems overall. This post brings North Caroli … Read more
CED through Local and Regional Food Systems: The Latest Resources
In the past year, activity around local food systems increased dramatically. Government has been involved in supporting food systems for decades, but primarily through programs adopted at the federal level to both promote food production and protect the health of consumers. But having government wor … Read more
Customer Service in CED – The New Push to Improve What We Do
CED officials prioritize good service. But are they undercutting their own efforts, increasing service availability on one hand but making it difficult to actively use the services on the other? A number of recent national reports, commentaries and even teaching case studies have raised the issue of … Read more
What @sog_ced is reading online: January 2021
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 … Read more
Practical Tools for CED: What Social Network Maps Can Offer
Last May, the following message went out over the Food Policy Network’s (FPN) listserv. “We are working to put together a process for network mapping one of our local food policy councils’ COVID response efforts. (The) purposes are to document the networks that were developed and the associated outc … 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 Virginia Creeper Trail: Partnerships Creating Public Value
This past weekend my wife and I took a short trip out to the mountains for our anniversary. Among our activities was peddling all 34 miles of the Virginia Creeper Trail, a beautiful gem stretching from White Top, through Damascus, to Abingdon, Virginia. In 2014, the Trail was inducted to the Rail-to … Read more
Lessons for CED from Europe: Housing, Job, Food, or Fuel Poverty…All Roads Lead to a Social Inclusion Model
For the past five months I served as a visiting scholar to the University of Ghent in Belgium. The link between food insecurity, a particular focus on my work in North Carolina, and larger overall economic insecurity issues has been getting increased focus across a number of European countries. Be … Read more