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Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia is finally improving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 19, 2024

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. Even in Mount Airy you could buy huge beautiful stone houses for under $600,000. Photo: Kimberly Paynter, WHYY/NPR. I have to laugh at the gentrification moniker.

Development

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

Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. 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. Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23).

Housing

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

DOS supported bespoke teams such as developers, researchers, designers, and delivery leaders to complement the in-house government team. Simplification – Chile has administered public procurement through ChileCompra since 2003. The UK G-Cloud framework supported standardized items such as cloud hosting, storage, and networking.

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Maximizing Municipal Budgets: Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2003—with the expert guidance of another future Community Progress co-founder, Frank S. 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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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)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 the legislation establishing them).

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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)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Challenges—and Opportunities—to Addressing Vacant Properties in Raton, New Mexico

Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The end of its major coal mining industry , beginning in the 1950s to the closure of the final mine in 2003, could have been a death sentence for the city. Though it is in an otherwise healthy neighborhood and could be the site of desperately needed affordable housing, 123 Raton Street remains stuck in legal and market limbo.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

," " 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.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., The city did a plan for the area around 2003.

Parks And Recreation

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades. Plus the real problem in Anacostia is a broken micro-economy. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct. The rally that was held in front of the White House is said to have attracted nearly 300 people (O’Hara, 2010).

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Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia is finally improving

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

Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

Webinars

Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

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

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

Challenges—and Opportunities—to Addressing Vacant Properties in Raton, New Mexico

Community building versus economic development

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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