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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

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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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

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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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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 ").

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Colorado’s Family Planning Initiative: An interview with Larry Wolk, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment – Episode #103

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

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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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Ephemeral sculpture public art projects, the kinds of landscape initiatives in Montreal, the creative public space approaches of Claude Cormier. Elizabeths I suggested this as part of a three part series on an innovative strategy for public health and wellness programming as part of building a new hospital.