Center for Community Progress
JULY 20, 2023
A major residential reassessment effort from 2014-2017 resulted in assessment reductions for over two-thirds of properties , and this year the City Council authorized funding and program s for homeowners impacted by overassessment. Some cities, like Detroit, are working to correct the overvaluation with equity in mind.
Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 27, 2024
While the department doesn’t provide direct medical services on-site, DC Health does focus on making federal dollars work for city residents, funding nonprofits and community groups working with people who need public health resources.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Public Health England, London, 57 pp. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.
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 ").
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Since it’s launch, Colorado’s teen birth rate has been cut nearly in half : Both the birth rate and abortion rate for women ages 15-19 fell 48 percent from 2009 through 2014. To learn more, we’re joined by Dr. Larry Wolk , the Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
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