by Emily Jessup | Oct 23, 2025 | Blog
This is the next installment in our series spotlighting the different ways communities across North Carolina are tackling their housing needs. Here, we are highlighting an idea being implemented by our friends in the Town of Chapel Hill that expedites the review...
by Robert Jessup | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
A recent article in The Assembly newsletter asked, “Why do politicians love the sales tax?” The article discusses Mecklenburg County’s upcoming referendum on an additional 1-cent sales tax for transportation uses. The whole piece is worth your time. There are a couple...
by Robert Jessup | Oct 9, 2025 | Blog
This is the next installment in our series spotlighting different ways communities across North Carolina are tackling their housing needs. Local governments across North Carolina have adopted “penny for housing” policies. These units range is size from Raleigh through...
by AJ Jessup | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog
C-PACE financing, also known as Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, is a financing tool that allows property owners to borrow money for clean energy projects which is then repaid through a special assessment that appears as an addition to one’s...
by Emily Jessup | Sep 19, 2025 | Blog
This is the third installment in our series spotlighting the different ways communities across North Carolina are tackling their housing needs. Here, we are recalling one of our favorite projects in Waynesville, which we first wrote about in 2023 (read that post...
by Emily Jessup | Aug 19, 2025 | Blog
This is the second installment of our series spotlighting the different ways communities across North Carolina are tackling their housing needs. Here, we are highlighting the Town of Troy’s Smitherman Village rent-to-own program which is providing residents with an...
