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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. Public Health England, London, 57 pp. I have taught it every year since then. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue "). Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. Anthony has posted operating income nearly every year since.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Park is implementing a wayfinding and interpretation signage system, so we have an opportunity to do some watershed interpretation. Trees as Nature-Based “Shade Sails” ," American Journal of Public Health ). Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Elizabeths I suggested this as part of a three part series on an innovative strategy for public health and wellness programming as part of building a new hospital. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?