Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). I hope they read it.) It would make New Carrollton a much more significant business and residential district. Improve the Public Schools.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. Over its history, NCST has facilitated REO sales on behalf of the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and a number of large banks and mortgage servicers. percent overall.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.) October 24, 2002.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I just learned that another place where I lived will be demolished for a new dormitory (" Saying goodbye to Ann Arbor's Marshall Court: Houses to be demolished for new dorm ," Ann Arbor News ). Some schools have invested in nearby commercial districts, like Catholic University mentioned above.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). That's a pretty good agenda, basically it's a " Fixing Broken Windows " approach. One that WMATA ought to pay attention to as well. Other options.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. But even before that I went back and forth on it. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

When your commercial real estate market has tanked, it's a bad time to come up with a way to triple the amount of office space, although sure they want housing too, and focusing on adding housing is what Trueblood suggested was the value of pursuing a change. In other words, do the change because you're desperate.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Krimgold (eds) 2015. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. iii] Abrahams, D. Disasters 38(S1): S25-S49. [iv]

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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

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. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider. National Monument. Evaluation.

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