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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This one is from February 2014. When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. Most of these drafts I delete, but this reads well and is worth publishing, even if it is 11 years late.

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

One facet of the legislation stipulated that Michigan land banks must be created by intergovernmental collaboration between a county and the state land bank. In the 20 years since this legislation, Michigan has formed 48 county land banks, one city land bank (DLBA), and the state land bank, which serves the remaining 35 counties.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units.

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

With tens of millions in federal funding, the selected consortiums—made up of state and local governments, educational institutions, businesses and community groups in 32 states and Puerto Rico—now have an opportunity to turn themselves into global players in advanced technology. The funding for the hubs comes from last year’s $54.2