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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. These conversations led to the following recommendations: The 203(k) program needs more education and direct outreach.

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The History of Public Lands

Park Leaders

Managing these lands is no small feat, with wildfire costs alone hitting $119 million in 2018. His ongoing educational outreach highlights the importance of public engagement. If states can’t afford to manage these lands, we risk seeing them sold off and lost forever.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Some researchers have advocated for tracking landlords who are most likely to evict tenants, so that localities can conduct targeted outreach to landlords (to help with financial assistance or code compliance, for example) and/or tenants (for rental assistance and/or to provide connections to legal services) ( Rutan and Desmond, 2021 ).

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Without the engagement and buy-in of operational data sources, like county health departments, area hospitals, and local police departments, you won’t get access to their data.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. The school district doesn't understand at all the link between neighborhoods and school success, school success and neighborhoods, and the need to invest in outreach and building relationships beyond the school grounds.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Community engagement facilities.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

During the study period, answering rates—or the rate at which tenants appeared in response to court filing—increased dramatically throughout the city, likely due to citywide outreach and tenant engagement. However, the study did not find a significant difference in answering rates in UAC ZIP Codes. Background.

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