Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. One hurdle Morton sees is that government agencies tend to operate by business unit. She envisions making CX measurements as important as operational ones in evaluating the success of government programs.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

Debt limit breach By statute, Congress limits the amount of money the Treasury may borrow to fund government operations even as it mandates that agencies spend more money than the government takes in. Still, a debt limit breach would be more harmful for our nation and for the public good. However, the Treasury has never defaulted on U.S.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Its new lending platform, for which it is also building an algorithm to determine loan eligibility – stands to make the roughly 10-person operation more efficient, Marisa Calderon, NCRC CDF’s executive director, said in a recent interview.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice. We’ve seen some of the biggest and most innovative ideas come from IMAGINE Grant applicants.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Winston-Salem is a secondary city in North Carolina, second to Charlotte, the largest city in the state, and to Raleigh-Durham, home to universities and large research operations. When US business was not so concentrated in major cities, it was home to a large number of firms including major corporate headquarters.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Ward Democracy Houses should also include at least one annual "community organization fair" which could also serve as a volunteer recruitment event. This week: How about volunteering in something? Funds for small projects.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). For example, one of the things I am lobbying for in Salt Lake is to create an evening shift for park maintenance. There are six large city parks.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. David is a Senior Principal at the CFE Fund ( [link] ), where he leads the national Bank On initiative. Brett earned a joint B.A.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Other cities have differently named similar organizations.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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."

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

. -- " 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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis also faced issues with rising crime and declining ridership that predated the pandemic. Conclusion.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

That was in the mid 1970s, and now the trees are maybe 50 feet tall--this photo is from 2018, and the trees in question are behind the garage. For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. Some died and we nursed the others.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, in once industrial cities like Baltimore or Pittsburgh you had lots of neighborhood bars, not unlike England's pubs, catering to people who did shift work, as plants often operated 24 hours/day. Same with breakfast places/diners. There are two problems. Cost of property is expensive.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2025

2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Seeding grassroots programs Once the campus is in full operation, Medaglia says the financial plan shows it will generate $7 million more than needed to cover costs every year. Anthony Community Health Needs Assessment ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

And two floors in a building in Hackney Wick (a cool district I stayed in in 2018). Over the last decade, Sydneys cultural infrastructure has shrunk by the equivalent of three Sydney Opera Houses, Lord Mayor Clover Moore will tell cultural leaders. is in a new build residential complex.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

As the local government minister, Jim McMahon, told the House of Commons last week: When we talk about important community assets, we see from an economic point of view that it is far better for them to be used and be productive, but we also recognise that they are hugely important to community identity and pride.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. From " Revitalization planning vs. positive thinking* as planning ," (2018) and " Helping Government Learn ," (2009). I happened across the book by Everett Rogers when I was in college.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. Architecting the platform on AWS allowed us to get up and operational within the first three months of starting the project. The suicide rate among veterans is still 1.5 times higher than that of the general population.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 28, 2025

One of the most discussed topics in housing finance policy in recent months has been whether and when the second Trump administration (Trump II) might end the 16-year conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

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