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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy

Iron Sharpens Iron

He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy. In 2006, Andy was selected as one of the top 101 Connectors in Philadelphia, and in 2021, he was named to Pennsylvania’s inaugural 50 Over 50 list by AARP and City&State. Episode transcript available here: [link].

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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy

Iron Sharpens Iron

He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy. In 2006, Andy was selected as one of the top 101 Connectors in Philadelphia, and in 2021, he was named to Pennsylvania’s inaugural 50 Over 50 list by AARP and City&State.

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21 years later H Street NE commercial district is still dirty

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about it in a couple entries: -- " Every Litter Bit Hurts ," 2005 -- " Community cleanups (and other activities) as community building and civic engagement activities ," 2011 I would say it gave me a much better ground-based appreciation about the nature of the trash. This article is interesting.

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

In 2006, we started interviewing people as they began their experience, then we went back 12 months later and then 12 months after that to be able to see what changed over time. We went through this process twice – once starting in 2006 and then again in 2012. But the reality is that very few people hit time limits.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Few museums truly integrate the performing arts with the visual arts, although almost all great artists have been passionately engaged with the music and theatre of their times. Of the museums 300,000 annual visitors, around a third come for the performing arts. I visited it back then and wasn't impressed. Especially with amped up investment.

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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

In 2006, after two years in Ennis, Earp left the nest to become assistant city manager in Kyle, Texas, a town of around 18,000 people at the time and where Earp would spend the next 16 years becoming an expert in city government, helping to oversee the town as its population tripled.

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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)

11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81 12] See “Statement by Secretary Henry M Paulson, Jr. 81 trillion.