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. In the early stages, if a new land bank stumbles in these areas, it risks being branded as unprofessional.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). Again, I think this is community building. The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s).

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

: arts as revitalization versus arts as community building ," (2024) In 2009, I gave a presentation at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference about "arts districts" and theatre as an example of an artistic-discipline focused approach. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural (..)

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In DC, there is the Sojourners group, and also Luther Place Memorial Church (Evangelical Lutheran), which in the 1980s started leveraging their property portfolio on Thomas Circle to house people in need. There are probably more positive examples than I realize, and that's the case in many cities across the country.

Housing 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. The idea that the point of government investment in community improvement wasn't to build dependency, but to stoke conditions to the point where private actors would continue to invest and improve on their own, without government assistance.

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