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Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED. Behind the headline are a host of issues that both foster hope in how to address affordable housing needs and the realization of the many steps it may take to get there. Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state.
I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.
It is the winning entry of the “ Arches Challenge Competition ”, launched In 2017 by Meanwhile Space and supported by Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London. The project’s value lies in its nomadic, temporary and sustainable approach. Behind the Blue Doors: Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces.
Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It By agenda I mean the set of challenges which policy makers accord priority.
To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. sustainable mobility. Or some housing on top of retail. In general, people don't want schools to be bad.
With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).
Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms. AWS cloud computing has helped train 200,000 Canadians in technical skills since 2017. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives.
Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.
The City of Detroit’s innovative Make it Home program harnesses the power of a traditionally harmful system—the property tax foreclosure process—and uses it to increase affordable homeownership, improve housing conditions, and stabilize neighborhoods. Make it Home is a “win-win-win” for tenants, neighborhoods, and the City.
ACCESS Sonoma emerged in 2017 as a way to combat data siloing between various safety net departments , sharing data from various health and human services programs in a hybrid cloud-based environment. The ability to share data across these departments was an obvious barrier.”
Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.
Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.
All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.
In 2017, the City of Bethlehem enlisted Reinvestment Fund and its partners Consulting and Atria Planning in the creation of a data-driven plan, dubbed the Bethlehem Blight Betterment Infinitive, or B3. Additionally, the task force recognized that maintaining current data on blight is instrumental to sustained blight management.
Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. The director then, Mark R. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)
For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions. It will be hard work, and even more hard work will have to go into making the result sustainable as society continues to change at an ever accelerating rate.
While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. They remade it into a full park circle.
Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst.
Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Moore-Bick, M.
. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)
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Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Extend the building underground and up (maybe have to buy a couple houses) to put in an underground auditorium/space (perhaps on the C Street side) to replace but continue the arts functions of North Hall, and put in an underground pool.
. -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 1 ," (2017) -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 2, building a network of bike facilities at the regional scale ," (2017) -- " Why not a bicycle hub at National Airport?,
This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] government (i.e., It would obviously be consistent with the intended nature of conservatorship (i.e.,
on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr. mortgage system.]]
Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.
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Also see Labor Network for Sustainability. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. Trump Administration derides equity as an analytical construct. Urban design and minority communities.
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