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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. ” Harding said while many housing advocates in New York do great work, she emphasized the role of representation in advocacy would help build trust with communities.

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If you want people to act, provide them with the means to do so: neighborhood historic district sign lacking contact information

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The State oegislature makes it exceedingly difficult to create locally designated historic districts with controls over development. And I have written about historic district signage (" Reassessing historic preservation on account of it being National Historic Preservation Month ," 2010).

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

“This is a great opportunity for our team of resident leaders to learn from other communities and experts, to bring good ideas home to Syracuse, and to work with neighbors to develop a project that will beautify and engage the community.”. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser About the Center for Community Progress.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. mortgage originations. 12] See “Statement by Secretary Henry M Paulson, Jr.