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How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference

Center for Community Progress

What : The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference has been around since 2007, bringing together about 1,000 attendees in cities across the country every two years. You’ll learn about new laws and issues affecting vacant property. Your community is facing different challenges in 2024 than it was in 2007, and even in 2022.

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Governor Appoints CDT Deputy Director of Communications & Stakeholder Relations

California Department of Technology

Since 2021, Monica has served as Deputy Director of Communications at the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Her first day at CDT will be October 6.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority outbids Wall Street to buy houses in Cincinnati

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts and retail focused community development corporations. Transit focused community development corporations. Sadly, wrt the Purple Line I first suggested this in 2007. A home recently purchased by The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority. Their focus is on maintaining independent retail.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an educational television program I saw over the weekend, " Towns in Tune ," featuring two communities, one in Canada, one in the US. So the Wynnwood district is an example of arts uses preparing a neighborhood for reproduction of space in ways that displace the pioneers. Prince Edward County, Ontario.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The authors argue that California’s Department of Housing and Community Development should pay closer attention to data collection and enforcement of the regulation to make sure municipalities are following state law. They found that areas with high concentrations of homeowners associations were less likely to approve ADUs.

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

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.