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Public consultation and social housing: the importance of listening to tenants

Bang the Table

Taking the perspectives of tenants on board is increasingly necessary, particularly since the Grenfell disaster in the UK in 2017. Although tenant participation is becoming more common when it comes to planning social housing, the ability for tenants to influence their landlords remains considerably limited.

Housing 40
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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Road Witch was a campaign in England 20+ years ago, focusing on rebalancing the use to streets toward residents, not automobiles. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

Advocacy 101
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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

nd building awareness and interest in the institution and the community (" House of Art(s) to open at the Springfield Art Museum ," Springfield News-Leader ), " Drury Students to help with De-Installation of Springfield Art Museum Exhibit ," Ozarks First, " Space as event as ouevre ," Gerard Nadeau). Again, I think this is community building.

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. The third is preserving housing. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A recent upload in my photo feed was from last fall, and showed a public art campaign posted on a trash can in Times Square, where the public spaces are managed by the Times Square Alliance business improvement district. Times Square in 2017. More about this later.) A much emptier Times Square. Photo: Gary Hershorn, Getty Images.