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Since 2009 the USDA has invested $6.3 billion in rural housing and businesses development, utility construction, and other community programs across North Carolina. More than $1.6 billion was invested in 2012, in which over 8000 families were aided through the Single Family Housing Program. [ 6 ]
The following is a partial list of named, but unincorporated, communities in the state of North Carolina.To be listed, the unincorporated community should either be, a census-designated place (CDP) or a place with at least a few commercial businesses.
Colleges and Universities, many located in rural communities, have also played a key role in rural community development throughout United States history. The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 provided funding for agricultural education. Since the passage of the Morrill Act, there has been significant demographic changes in the population of ...
The North Carolina chapter of the American Planning Association proposed reforms which were adopted in 2005. [2] The purpose of these reforms was to simplify, modernize, and make technical changes to the existing land use and planning laws. [2] The reform bills were sponsored by state Senator Daniel G. Clodfelter and Representative Lucy T ...
Article I states that the North Carolina Planned Community Act is applicable only to a planned community created on or after January 1, 1999. Planned communities created before January 1, 1999 can operate under the statute if they express it in their community declaration.
The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. [2] Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. [3]
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programmes.
The Rural Community Advancement Program is a program established by the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127, Sec. 761) under which USDA is authorized to provide state rural development block grants, direct and guaranteed loans, and other assistance to meet rural development needs across the country. Program funding is allocated to three accounts: (1 ...