Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. Supporting Workforce Development Goals. Is your community struggling with vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties?

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Parks And Recreation Housing Legislation Stewardship 98

Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride.

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Strategic Planning Housing Engagement Stewardship 105

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The biggest thing I learned from my involvement in DC urban revitalization matters was that once the velocity of development starts to change and revved up, it's too late to come up with plans, you need plans beforehand, otherwise you are reactive, not proactive and can never catch up. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. It well reflects how much F&F are a hybrid of the two.

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Legislation Housing Regulations Operations 88

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

There is an educational television program I saw over the weekend, " Towns in Tune ," featuring two communities, one in Canada, one in the US. So the Wynnwood district is an example of arts uses preparing a neighborhood for reproduction of space in ways that displace the pioneers. Prince Edward County, Ontario.

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Economic Development Housing Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Planning relevance.

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