Remove 2009 Remove Development Remove Laws
article thumbnail

A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

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. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

article thumbnail

Over Forty National, Local, and Land Bank Stakeholders Join Community Progress in Asking Bank Regulators to Strengthen the CRA

Center for Community Progress

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition notes that from 2009 to 2020, more than $4 trillion dollars in CRA-qualified lending went to homeowners and businesses in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, pointing to the massive significance of the CRA and its impact on communities across the US. Don’t limit the scope or scale of CRA.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). Rather than searching for the 'community', I advocate identifying, utilising and developing specific mechanisms. Disaster subcultures.

Laws 52
article thumbnail

Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

Education is supplemented by several industry credentials: PMP, Certified Scrum Master, CISSP, and graduated from AMU with an Associate’s in General Studies — Computer Science in 2008 and Bachelor’s in Information Systems Security in 2009. General Services Administration and previously with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

article thumbnail

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)

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 27 This development is perhaps the most damning evidence as to how political the FHLBanks are. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

article thumbnail

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

article thumbnail

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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.