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The Future is "Perserverance" with Jane Leonard

The Future Is Community podcast

Jane highlights examples of interdisciplinary collaborations across Minnesota to demonstrate how successful community development enhances economic growth alongside social justice. In this episode, Jane Leonard draws from her 40 years of wisdom to emphasize the fact that our world is not one-dimensional.

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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

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." The mixed-income development will sit at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying area of D.C. s development team. that has seen average household income nearly double over the last 25 years.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

In 2018, only 5 percent of the conventional mortgage market were loans to Black borrowers, compared to 15 percent of the FHA/VA market, which are government-mandated to serve underserved borrowers. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Chicago has elected local school councils

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While I don't know for sure, I bet like DC's ANCs, there's very little investment in board development, providing technical assistance etc. Now they have a hard time getting enough candidates. I found out in Salt Lake City that city committee members get $30 per meeting. It's not much, but it's something.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.” Sometimes it is.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

In addition to his operational responsibilities, Joe managed COST’s advocacy program and regularly testified before state legislatures and other state and national policy-making bodies. Joe served COST as chief operating officer & senior director, policy. Joe is a nationally recognized expert on state and local business tax policy.