How does debt aversion affect college completion for Latino students? Aversion to borrowing is both a barrier to college completion and is integrally connected to several other barriers, mostly financial, disproportionately burdening Latino students. It’s complicated! But a new report … Continued

The Center for Community Capital (CCC) condemns the killing of George Floyd as well as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other Black people before them by the hands of law enforcement officers. While the focus is often on the … Continued

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by William Curran-Groome (MCRP 2020) & Amie Sigmann (MSW 2020) looks at the emerging trends driving tuition-free colleges and the ways in … Continued

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by Celeste Kathleen (MSW 2021) & Keiyitho Omonuwa (MPH 2020) analyzes the pattern of rising costs in higher education across the nation. The … Continued

The UNC Center for Community Capital is pleased to receive an award from the NC TraCS Institute for the 121st cycle of the TraCS $2K pilot grants. Molly DeMarco (with the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) and … Continued

“The rising level of defaults in the FHA portfolio is a cause for concern, but some of the proposed solutions could do more harm than good. Assuming that down payment assistance (DPA) from state and local housing agencies―or down payment … Continued

“One of the most startling discoveries I’ve made in my research has been the direct connection between energy efficiency and financial health for low- and middle-income families. A 2013 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center … Continued

“Default rates among loans that used down payment assistance were low compared to other mortgage types, according to a joint report from the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Center for Community Capital … Continued

The UNC Center for Community Capital is partnering on a grant from Lumina Foundation to the UNC School of Law to study the relationship between debt, achievement and equity in higher education, with a specific focus on Latino/a students. This … Continued

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by Janel Burns (MSW 2020), is a reflection on how impostor syndrome can be a major barrier to academic and professional success … Continued