Remove 2015 Remove Community Development Remove Development
article thumbnail

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

Housing 89
article thumbnail

Parking fees/admissions fees for arenas, stadiums, concert facilities: Fee proposal for Live Nation Pittsburgh opposed by developer

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Marimba Milliones is president and CEO of the Hill Community Development Corporation. At one time, it was proposed a new sports arena would be built there, but instead other development plans are moving forward. Owners-developers oppose ticket or parking taxes saying it will reduce patronage. Wikipedia photo.

article thumbnail

Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

This is an excerpt of Chapter 10 of Tackling Vacancy and Abandonment: Strategies and Impacts After the Great Recession, jointly produced by the Center for Community Progress, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

Housing 98
article thumbnail

It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

Housing 52
article thumbnail

Mapping CED Progress…and Struggle: The 2024 NC County Tier Rankings

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

General Assembly developed a tax incentive program to promote economic development, with access to the incentives based on a county’s place (designation) in an ordered list reflecting the relative economic distress of all 100 NC counties. Analysts referred to it as a “two-tiered economic system.”

article thumbnail

Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

article thumbnail

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Salt Lake City?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But if you're a real estate developer, you have different motivations. Profitability of the team matters less than activating your real estate development and selling property. When there was first talk about the minor league team moving, I was skeptical because it makes no sense from a business perspective.