2014 Advocacy Development 
Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. NYC sponsors(ed?)
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Grant Writing Made Easy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. Soon after we started developing our business website, the West Virginia Water Crisis happened, and I started going to West Virginia all the time to film and advocate. That took over my life for the semester.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
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).
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MAY 31, 2023
14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. Specifically, it is a non-lending unit of the U.S.
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