Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In particular, the organization’s Foreclosure Response Program—launched in 2008 in direct response to the devastating foreclosure crisis—has proven a resilient model for affordable single-family development.

Housing 98

Housing Development Advocacy Voting 98

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) I think that the real problem has been lack of neighborhood communication and education, heightened by the reality of car centricity, which automobile dependent residents aren't inclined to question--they just take it for granted.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Communications Housing 52

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. As I approached tenure, I saw friends on the tenure track leave my university and others for jobs outside of higher education. This was also the beginning of the Great Recession.

Nonprofit 98

Nonprofit Housing Cultivation Translation 98

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. With a general election pending there is an opportunity to produce some strong advocacy for the development of a better civil protection system.

Coordinator 40

Coordinator Advocacy Operations Management 40

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. This claim is simply untrue. 19 This was obviously in reaction to the criticisms.

Government 52

Government Housing Implementation Legislation 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). With the arrival of globally accessible publishing, freedom of speech is now freedom of the press and freedom of the press is freedom of assembly” (Shirky 2008, p.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

When the conservatorships were established in 2008, exiting them required approval from both the presidential administration, acting through Treasury, and the then-independent FHFA, led by a single director. Doing so allows for the design of exit terms to produce that model as a result.

Legislation 69

Legislation Housing Campaign Voting 69