Center for Community Progress

JULY 27, 2022

On July 13, Community Progress CEO and President Dr. Akilah Watkins spoke before the The US House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee in a hearing called “Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and The American Housing Crisis.” Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on America’s housing unaffordability crisis. .

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JULY 21, 2022

Mary Campbell, Director of Housing Services at New Kensington CDC joins hosts Leon Robinson and De’Wayne Drummond to talk about the many layers of what it means to be a housing counselor, the critical role of these advocates, and the need for more supports for affordable, stable housing and opportunities for home ownership.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Life2vec organises data into a complex system of vectors, structuring information related to the time of birth, education, salary, housing, and health. It was found being male, skilled, or having a mental health diagnosis was associated with a higher risk of mortality. The post Would you trust AI to predict your future life events?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 28, 2023

3M69Oaz Condos are in crisis, per Urban Institute report, and have an important role in the housing market: “They are the first step on the homeownership ladder for many younger buyers, and they are the ticket to downsizing for older buyers.” Housebound residents can request delivery to their door. 41kaSvZ U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 10, 2023

s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing ," about how proposals for a new Chevy Chase Community Center, incorporating a variety of improvements as well as housing above, which could be either 100% affordable housing or partial, are being met by opposition. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Playhouse Square Development Corporation, and Jubilee Housing of Baltimore (focused on live work housing) are particularly good examples. Housing market, venture capital and single family housing as rentals. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords ," NPR).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 3, 2023

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. a) As noted by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning (House of Lords 2021), the NRR is not very "user-friendly" and is not well-known. House of Lords 2021. HL Paper no.

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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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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’ve probably seen an abandoned house or two in your neighborhood. These empty structures and lots remain for years, deteriorating in condition, weakening the housing market, driving residents out of the neighborhood, and fueling more vacancy. The global financial crisis in 2008 was also a major trigger for many communities.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute. “Daniels revolutionized the state’s approach to its BMV, and just a few years later, an agency that had been almost universally despised enjoyed a customer satisfaction rating of 95.9

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing. According to a report from Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley earlier this year, “ between 2008 and 2019, 80 percent of (affordable housing) developments layered between four to eight sources of funding (including equity).”

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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.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2022 the Michigan State House and Senate passed a critical appropriation of over $75 million to a program supporting “blight elimination” across the state—the result of a joint effort between Community Progress and MALB—and later expanded that program by another $75 million.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. hospitals and housing) often prevent effective discharge planning ( Greysen et al.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The 2001 recession was concentrated in tech; the 2008-9 recession in housing. So, what has changed and what has been different since 2020? Every recession affects a different set of industries hardest.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I joined HCR in 2008. Many of these are small contracts that support housing and community development needs in specified service areas around the state. Within a couple of years, we saw activity from the approved land banks that included applications for various housing preservation and development grants.

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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. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. However, the night after we viewed the house, I had a very uneasy feeling and couldn’t sleep.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. Over its history, NCST has facilitated REO sales on behalf of the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and a number of large banks and mortgage servicers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 24, 2024

Sugar House Park is almost 70 years old, and has different planning needs compared to when the park was created. Items like vegetation and Parley's Creek were not covered thoroughly in the most recent (2008) master plan update process. This came up with Sugar House Park and planning for replacement pavilions.

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

This one, officially named Project Greek Island, was completed in 1962 and was designed to house Congress in the event of an emergency. Because this was formerly a launch facility whose underground silo housed an Atlas-F intercontinental ballistic missile. Tea House on Bunker – Vreeswijk, Netherlands. Image Source.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government. (For

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 3, 2023

Against this background, Japan established a “Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT)” in 2008, intending to further expand optical fibre transmission capacity. This was the first such committee in the world, and it clarified the concept of space division multiplexing (SDM) technologies.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

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. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). Conclusion. A train hall isn't enough to transform New Carrollton, although I should have included it as a suggestion on the list of actions in the original piece.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S.

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. So our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well. Chris: Yeah. And I had some trouble finding a part time job. So this one was open and I applied and got it. And you guys have a beautiful park. Chris: Yes.

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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). In addition, since 2008, it is also their conservator, which gives it powers to directly control all their operations and decision-making.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. Although the residential housing market continues to be hot, the commercial property might be a concern in the future as a result of the possible working modality change.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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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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