Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. The House supported the program through House Bill 5783. Leadership on the House side included House Appropriations Committee Chair Thomas Albert (R-86) and Rep. Curtis Hertel (D-23). Greg VanWoerkom (R-91).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. As long as the building remains, you can continue to tell the stories,” Howard says.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The last few years have illustrated, on issues ranging from mask policies to housing, the power of a small number of energized but vocal participants to sway policy. Denver had produced a plan in 2007 and wanted to update it based on new data as well as to gauge public sentiment on setting more ambitious goals.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This means the far bigger influence comes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that are currently under the control 11 of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). 1 FSOC was created by the Dodd-Frank Act in response to certain regulatory failings revealed by the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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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. The trend continued for the next several years.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. Get Your Foot in the Door So it got me to thinking about my own experience when I graduated College. So the workforce was still kind of feeling those effects.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. Multiple statutes provide authority for a local government’s affordable housing activities, as detailed in this comprehensive blog post by my colleague Tyler Mulligan.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.

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