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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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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. 11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008.

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

2011 Doors Open Toronto Guide ) But Open House New York Weekend is increasingly a big deal. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide. Pittsburgh created Doors Open Pittsburgh.

Parks And Recreation

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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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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The concept proved so successful that the franchise has turned its attention to more urban areas, while the original site was converted into a museum in 2010. This one, officially named Project Greek Island, was completed in 1962 and was designed to house Congress in the event of an emergency. Image Source. Image Source.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Overview of the FSOC Report The FSOC was created in 2010 as a federal interagency committee primarily to identify threats to financial stability and recommend actions to avoid them. In addition, since 2008, it is also their conservator, which gives it powers to directly control all their operations and decision-making. government.

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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., Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, in the latest phase of urban attraction--post 2010--that's no longer the case. the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. That bill is before the House for final approval next week. mill tax for the Detroit Zoo they approved in 2008.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I made the point that city biking has different issues from a suburban or rural trail. . -- " Making cycling irresistable in DC ," (2008) Then I got a short term job as a bicycle planner for Baltimore County and I realized that suburban bicycling issues could be different from the city, but were pretty much similar.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] government (i.e., trillion amount.

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Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Pullman is distressed. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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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

2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

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

Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

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

10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

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

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

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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