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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). This suggests that public housing agencies may rely on eviction filings as a rent collection strategy. Background and Context.

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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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Goodwill of Greater Washington to build Arlington affordable housing as part of a first-of-its-kind redevelopment + the Flint YMCA

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. And the development doesn't look like it's affordable housing.

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WMATA "Fleet of the Future" exhibit on the National Mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A prototype of the 1000-series Metro train on display on the White House Lawn in the 1960s. In 1968, Metro built and displayed prototypes at the White House Lawn, the National Mall, Prince George’s Plaza and L’Enfant Plaza.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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AI Below the Surface

GovLoop

Regular inspections are an absolute necessity to prevent collapses like one that occurred in 2016. That incident led to the evacuation of 23 homes and the condemnation of several houses. The county’s sewer transmission line serves 850,000 residents in 25 municipalities, including Detroit.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.