Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Dawn led the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, where she spearheaded the exploration and implementation of emerging technologies to serve missions, and led the organization’s first restructure in its 57-year history.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even at a time of record low housing supply, vacant and deteriorated properties—referred to by some as “blighted properties,” though the Center for Community Progress and others consider the term harmful and problematic*—exist in every community. See The Empty House Next Door for more information.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

A prototype of the 1000-series Metro train on display on the White House Lawn in the 1960s. In 1968, Metro built and displayed prototypes at the White House Lawn, the National Mall, Prince George’s Plaza and L’Enfant Plaza.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

You're probably familiar with the trend of people hosting music events at their house. This New York Times article, " Vintage Americana and Spicy Chicken ," discusses the history of the building and how it came to be an arts center, which wasn't until 2014.

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The City Fix

APRIL 12, 2023

Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in South Africa expanded by 1,464 km2. South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Population projections.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2022 the Michigan State House and Senate passed a critical appropriation of over $75 million to a program supporting “blight elimination” across the state—the result of a joint effort between Community Progress and MALB—and later expanded that program by another $75 million. What’s next for Michigan land banks?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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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. The owner’s grandson, who grew up and lived in the house with his grandmother, wanted to buy the property to keep it in his family.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS!

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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. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. However, the night after we viewed the house, I had a very uneasy feeling and couldn’t sleep. It was the house.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The last few years have illustrated, on issues ranging from mask policies to housing, the power of a small number of energized but vocal participants to sway policy. In order to do this, they will be best served by getting citizen input in a variety of ways. ?.

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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.)

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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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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). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. The many places in which I have lived have had highly varied levels of expression of community. Banfield, E.C. Barrios, R.E.

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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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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

Ciclavia in December 2014. Bike bundling programs in public housing. Bike sharing programs ought to be an obvious opportunity for promoting cycling take up. Discounted bike sharing memberships on a means-tested basis. Campus specific bike share programs. Los Angeles Times photo. Employer and college-assisted buying programs.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

I first visited the affected area in 2014, having failed to gain a place on an earlier expedition that took place a year and a half after the disaster. People who lost their homes had to live in transitional houses only 28.5 The affected area is the T?hoku hoku region of northeast Honshu island. Broadly, they achieved it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It had a decent run, but it closed in 2005 (" Wah Luck House maintains culture in dying D.C. It was an okay size and in a pretty good location roughly at the intersection of 7th and H Streets NW and across from the Gallery Place Metrorail Station. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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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 ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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., This was a childcare measure among others. Capital City Public Charter School, DC. but it fell off.

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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"?);

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And the Post has an interesting article about how Amtrak at DC's Union Station has contracted with nonprofit organizations to work with homeless in the station catchment area on moving to permanent housing, getting necessary services, etc. (" Can we solve homelessness? A program at Union Station is a huge step ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). For example, one of the things I am lobbying for in Salt Lake is to create an evening shift for park maintenance. There are six large city parks.

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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.)

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