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

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@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 receives $374,000 grant from @LuminaFound to study higher education equity with a focus on Latino/a students law.unc.edu/news/2019/10/unc…
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Congratulations, Nichola!
20 May 2019
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. bit.ly/nicholalowe
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UNC Center for Community Capital retweeted
Our new research out now @CommunityCap! And there is more from this study. For a full legal theory exposition of the "investment imperative," see papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. For an understanding of why borrowers don't see student debt as a legal problem, see protectborrowers.org/lawyers…

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. communitycapital.unc.edu/stu… @kateelengold @julialbarnard (1/x)
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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. communitycapital.unc.edu/stu… @kateelengold @julialbarnard (1/x)

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"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)
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Want to better understand the methods underlying the study? Check out the Methodological and Technical Appendix. communitycapital.unc.edu/res…. A huge thanks to MetLife Foundation for supporting this work. (11/11)

nytimes.com/2019/02/20/busin… "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.
So are we!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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. communitycapital.unc.edu/abo…
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27 Aug 2018
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. unc.live/2OeojZe
UNC Center for Community Capital retweeted
12 Jul 2018
‘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
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