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Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia is finally improving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My 2003 op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News was partially inspired by a super cool club-restaurant-performance space in an old Woolworth's (long since closed) in Germantown. Photo: Kimberly Paynter, WHYY/NPR. I have to laugh at the gentrification moniker. I can't express how amazed I was at the level of disinvestment at the time.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

The one-time appropriation is a part of the overall $76 billion state budget on its way to Gov. In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. Gretchen Whitmer for signature.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

18 It is worth noting that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), from time to time, estimates the value of the subsidies to the FHLB system. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2003 the city has been growing--even with the recent hiccup of the recession + a slowing and braking on urban growth because of some shrinkage of the activity of federal government, especially in terms of leased office space and personnel. City revival.