Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

You find a local home repair program and help your parents fill out an application, only to find out that they do not qualify because they do not have legal ownership—or title —to the house. At the Center for Community Progress, we’ve engaged with heirs’ property issues for years.

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Local Government Government Housing Outreach 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., but it fell off.

Parks And Recreation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Alternatives to 'community engagement in DRR' do exist:-Organised voluntarism can be incorporated into the official civil protection system. Hence, 'community' is about influence. Banfield, E.C.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.

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Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Waverly Market Pete Seeger tribute singalong, Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC, 2/1/2014 Sometimes plazas are poorly placed, like Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, so it often goes unused. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); Social Marketing 3.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Later he was fired because Mayor Guiliani didn't like how much attention that Bratton got by the press and public, and the policing strategy changed from data based to what is called Zero Tolerance Policing, which could be pretty oppressive and didn't engage the community. A program at Union Station is a huge step ").

Security 52

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)

Housing 59

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. 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. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

This one is from February 2014. Relatedly, in planning engagements, planners have two responsibilities, simultaneously dealing with "citywide" concerns as laid out in a master or comprehensive land use plan for the community, as well as neighborhood concerns, while residents typically only take responsibility for the latter.

Urban Planning 52

Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

," (2013) Civic assets as a network The "change isn't that simple" entry discusses multiple cities with wide-ranging anchor project development with branding similarities to the "Signature Streets" proposal. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I lost about a year's photos somehow, including a great photo of bbq use at Sugar House Park in February!!! Jordan River, Salt Lake Why come to Sugar House Park when it is 8-10 miles away from residents on the west side? This is at Liberty Park in SLC. And when you have parks and open space assets in your own neighborhoods.

Sustainability 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

In Tampa, the two counties can't figure out how to work together on transit, nor can they build support within their counties ( Voters reject Greenlight Pinellas ," Tampa Bay Times , " My Ride/My Road: Polk County Voters Reject 1-Cent Sales Tax Increase ," Lakeland Ledger, 2014). There are plenty of other examples.

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