Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even at a time of record low housing supply, vacant and deteriorated properties—referred to by some as “blighted properties,” though the Center for Community Progress and others consider the term harmful and problematic*—exist in every community. See The Empty House Next Door for more information.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

A prototype of the 1000-series Metro train on display on the White House Lawn in the 1960s. In 1968, Metro built and displayed prototypes at the White House Lawn, the National Mall, Prince George’s Plaza and L’Enfant Plaza. It's only more of a need given how WFH has cut transit ridership in half. -- St.

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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. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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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). 1 FSOC was created by the Dodd-Frank Act in response to certain regulatory failings revealed by the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 29, 2023

Drive 15 minutes southeast from the heart of downtown Cleveland and you’ll find an unexpected sight: a working urban farm, complete with a burgeoning fruit orchard, chicken coop, and hoop houses. The house is the “ de facto second, third, and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

," 2024 The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago Sun-Times ). -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " (..)

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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. Many of the "natural features" in Sugar House Park are specified in the post on climate change, " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change."

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. Interestingly, Mielke has been converting bunkers for more than a decade, and from the sounds of it, he has a lot of material to work with: as of 2009, there were still around 2,000 bunkers in Germany. Image Source. Image Source.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. Back when I graduated in 2009 and I was struggling to find a job, I actually applied to a couple Correctional facilities as their recreation program manager. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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). I need not repeat them here. The manifestation of community may simply be an expression of the will of the powerful. Disaster subcultures.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago Sun-Times ). -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " The unintended (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). Some examples exist, especially in Tempe, Arizona.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Across the country, policymakers are dealing with the impact of exclusionary zoning practices that have created barriers to housing supply and restricted access to high-opportunity neighborhoods for low-income families. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 percent to 19.2

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2023

One is working part-time while dealing with health issues, and the other is working two jobs to save for a house. Born between 1981 and 2009, they’re the largest adult demographic. Like many young adults, they worry about their financial future. And they value institutions that build community.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. We did this in 2008 or 2009. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. Anselm's is today.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. These five elements—artists, place, space, organizations, and businesses—are the components of cultural clusters or cultural quarters. -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 ," 2019 -- " Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Julia Meltzer is a recent graduate from Stanford University with a B.S.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. Construction began in late 2009. There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle. Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2025

I've written about this, " Daypart and age-group planning in mixed use (commercial) districts " 2009), partly in response to a W ashington Post article (but there were others), " Residents of Washington's U Street Corridor Tired of Area's Growing Noise." 30 cocktails (" D.C.s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I have many posts about this, but the most definitive one laying out an alternate vision, was " Retail planning and the Florida Market " from 2009. But the firm ended up being able to pivot and change their business model to urban infill and exciting, not chain, retail (some) and (mostly) restaurants. But I played a key role in both.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 6, 2023

This view has been expressed by many members of current and former White Houses, and is a central tenet of the Partnership’s Center for Presidential Transition.® The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( I see they're updating their plan.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. From " Revitalization planning vs. positive thinking* as planning ," (2018) and " Helping Government Learn ," (2009). Since, I have a five point concept about how to diffuse innovation.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In a historical context, when viewing the snapshot of their nascent birth, we can see the peak of OWS has slightly more interest in America than searches for the TPM did during the groups’ peak in 2009” (Parrillo, 2011).

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). No small feat. Not a West Wing fan? Why or why not? Sound off below.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How real is Dark Enlightenment, and does whats happening in the White House now have any serious ties to it? But that was back in 2009. Sounds like a self-coup attempt to me. Richard, you are sitting in San Francisco. Or should I go back to reading science fiction? Richard Waters responds What a fascinating question.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Angie Schmitt writes about this in terms of pedestrian safety, Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Crisis of Pedestrian Deaths in America , also published by the great Island Press.

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