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

Center for Community Progress

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. Leadership included Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Jim Stamas (R-36), Sen. The total $21.5 Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen.

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Logistics in the Driver’s Seat: Congestion as a Cost of Increased Warehousing

The Lowe Down

A group of environmental institutions under the leadership of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability submitted an 80-page study to Governor Newsome asking for a two-year moratorium on the expansion of the logistics industry in the Inland Empire. Logistics employed 12.3%

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003). It's the difference too between a building and an arts district/cultural quarter. Also, the new from the ground up arts centers are about consumption, not production. Slightly revised and reordered Cultural venues at a variety of scales, including small and medium.

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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)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. This led WMATA to get rid of its long range engineering and construction unit, and losing decades of experience in building and running the system ("Metro Construction Projects Creak to Halt; Economic, Political Changes Cancel Expansion Plans, Spur Job Cuts, Early Retirements," Lyndsey Layton.

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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)

Like F&F, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 7 Over time, the same fundamental GSE design flaws that led to the problematic behaviors at F&F are also behind the current calls for FHLB System reforms.

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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. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. City revival.