What @sog_ced is reading online: January 2020

<p>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.</p> <div dir="auto" lang="en"></div> <div dir="auto" lang="en"> CED items:</div> Columbia and Princeton researchers looked at 15 years of data and found “some evidence of direct job gains” from firm specific tax incentives but didn’t find strong evidence of broader economic growth or spillover effects. http://bit.ly/37XWm10<br /> Nice job by Novogradac with pros/cons of proposed changes to Community Reinvestment Act. Take a close look at the new “aggregate balance sheet ratio” and the potential consequences for underserved and rural areas. http://bit.ly/37d8w6o Will Congress give local governments the ability to change some of their opportunity zone designations? One of the original sponsors is thinking about it. http://bit.ly/317mZyc <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" lang="en">UNC DFI in the News:</div> Dare County partners with UNC DFI on affordable housing.  http://bit.ly/2vEtRrm Housing proposal considered in Elizabethtown. http://bit.ly/3bdh3Iy <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" lang="en">Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….” https://ced.sog.unc.edu/what-sog_ced-is-reading-online-december-2019/.</... <div dir="auto" lang="en"></div> <div dir="auto" lang="en">Compiled by Sara Cockerham</div>