UNC Center for Community Capital

UNC’s Center for Community Capital researches how to make financial systems work better for more people.

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

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[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

@CommunityCap is very excited to partner with @unc_law's @kateelengold, @WeAreUnidosUS, and @LuminaFound to explore the role of debt and debt aversion in higher education equity, with a special focus on Latino/a students.

[UNC School of Law @unc_law]

UNC School of Law receives $374,000 grant from @LuminaFound to study higher education equity with a focus on Latino/a students https://t.co/UGLj0vflcb

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

Congratulations, Nichola!

[CURS at UNC @UNCCURS]

Nichola Lowe Named Interim Director of CURS: No stranger to the Center, Lowe is a CURS Faculty Fellow and was the CURS Scholar-in-Residence in 2007. She will serve as the interim director of CURS for a one-year term beginning July 1, 2019. https://t.co/NdJ4F2YXs4

[Kate Elengold @kateelengold]

Our new research out now @CommunityCap! And there is more from this study. For a full legal theory exposition of the "investment imperative," see https://t.co/b1aocOPaVO. For an understanding of why borrowers don't see student debt as a legal problem, see https://t.co/81EX9b5E9h

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

Want to better understand the methods underlying the study? Check out the Methodological and Technical Appendix. https://t.co/YW9qCiG9sh.

A huge thanks to MetLife Foundation for supporting this work. (11/11)

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

New research briefs from UNC Center for Community Capital. The research draws out themes and identifies takeaways from in-depth interviews with 65 student loan borrowers about promises and pitfalls of higher education. https://t.co/S8EYIinT2d @kateelengold @julialbarnard (1/x)

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

"Highlighting the information asymmetry experienced by many first-generation students is not intended to obscure the need to address other significant and systemic obstacles" highlighted in these briefs and elsewhere. (11/x)

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

https://t.co/WTGqsGSl1Q "The law permits an investor to roll over an unrealized capital gain into an opportunity-zone fund. The fund can then put the money in a zone by investing in, say, a condo project or affordable-housing units." <<<big difference at the end there.

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

welcome to the Triangle, @evenfinancial! #fintech

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[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

So are we!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[Kate Elengold @kateelengold]

Excited to make my relationship with the amazing UNC @CommunityCap official. I'm looking forward to continuing to research the effects of student debt with this incredible team. https://t.co/nPVQ7zmocD

[UNC Center for Community Capital @CommunityCap]

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[CURS at UNC @UNCCURS]

Researcher Resource: A de-identified, public-use version of the Community Advantage Panel Survey (CAPS). Panel survey data provided by approximately 5,000 low- and moderate–income homeowners and renters during the period of 2003-2014 from @CommunityCap.

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[WICHE @wicheEDU]

‘The single biggest correlating factor for student nonpersistence is unmet financial need’: Renny Christopher of @WSUVancouver, on the value of including Advancement in AA/SA partnerships, at @wicheEDU Western Academic Leadership Academy: #WALA18 #highered