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.

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Public Health Implementation Nonprofit Laws 97

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.

Local Government 98

Local Government Housing Public Health Public Service 98

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.

Development 40

Development Economic Development Community Development Public Health 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

s newest hospital ," Washington Post ), in a manner that combined acute care, wellness programming including addressing chronic conditions, and public health with a hospital providing acute care at the center. 2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

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 (..)

Housing 52

Housing Implementation Public Health Local Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

In preparing for that interview, I looked at the websites for all of the city's Advisory Neighborhood Commssions (ANCs are block and neighborhood specific councils that weigh in on matters before DC government) and just a handful had transportation/public space committees. And public health.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

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.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52