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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing ," about how proposals for a new Chevy Chase Community Center, incorporating a variety of improvements as well as housing above, which could be either 100% affordable housing or partial, are being met by opposition. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. In the beginning of my Main Street days (2002) districts like Dupont Circle pushed for being included. DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it ").

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Honoring our finalists Since 2002, the Partnership has honored over 760 public servants whose accomplishments contribute to the health, safety and well-being of our country and have provided people with a call to public service. On Thursday, May 9, this year’s nominees gathered at the Partnership headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.,

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002. The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Michigan’s first land bank was founded in 2002 as the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council (now the Genesee County Land Bank ) by Dan Kildee , who later went on to be one of the cofounders and first president of the Center for Community Progress.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.