Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I started reading Crain's Detroit Business and both Warren--home to GM's technical engineering operations, and Livonia--primarily a community of residential housing, are both either developing or considering the development of downtowns. -- " Warren resurrects plans to develop a downtown " -- " Livonia wants to build a downtown.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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The Whistle Post

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

There are opportunities for certification training including OSHA 10, Serve Safe Food Handler, Forklift Operator in addition to Entrepreneurship/Micro-Business training. 2020-CY-BX-0032 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Second Chance Re-Entry Program is a project of The WorkPlace. This project was supported by Grant No.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These two Banks are diving into issues such as housing affordability and the rural/urban divide in the Southeastern U.S. Together, they work to promote the effective operation of the U.S. Concerns about affordable housing provide a wonderful example. Rural NC house in need of repair. Source: CreativeCommons.org.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. Although the rate of foreclosure in Cuyahoga County had declined as of 2020, much remedial work remains unfinished.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

A property tax exemption in New York City is necessary to make rental housing development financially feasible across the city’s varied markets, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Bang the Table

APRIL 22, 2022

With the British government’s social housing white paper published just a few weeks prior, social housing provider Catalyst ® launched The Garden – an online community platform that enables tenant participation and provides real-time customer feedback. How much is the social housing white paper a driver of what you are doing?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2020, Meta introduced the Daylight Map Distribution , which combines OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with quality and consistency checks from Daylight mapping partners to create a no-cost, stable, and simple-to-use global map. tags map Key/Value pairs of attributes that describe the OSM feature, such as ‘building=house’ or ‘natural=tree’.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And saying we won at “very little cost” may not be entirely ingenuous because the CPI level is still up from 260 in February 2020 to 307 as of September 2023. Because monetary policy operates with a significant lag, macroeconomists think of wringing out the persistent inflationary pressures likely to deliver future inflation.

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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. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

Note: On the word “Intranet” – which by the way is defined by Wikipedia as: “An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders.”. Intranet: What’s the difference?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. Charlotte strives to stay involved in modernization initiatives for the House of Representatives, where she feels technology can strengthen democracy.

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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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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This ensures they understand the four cornerstones of community development: (1) A ffordable housing; (2) C ommunity services; (3) E conomic development; and. (4) As 2020 and 2021 will be included within the scope of upcoming examinations, there is an opportunity to identify qualifying loans. Provide periodic training to lenders.

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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

MARCH 26, 2024

Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure. But plan for four seasons of activity, depending on the park and its location.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

AI is transforming federal government operations by enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, allowing the workforce to do more with less, and empowering employees to focus on creative tasks while reducing repetitive work. This setup promotes iterative testing of AI models, leading to more robust and dependable AI deployments.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 27, 2025

GM agreed to move to a building to be constructed on the Hudson's Department Store site--but renting little space comparatively--and the two agreed to jointly redevelop RenCen (" GM and Bedrock reveal master plan for John Portmans Renaissance Center by Gensler and Field Operations ," Architect's Newspaper ). Anti-urban design.

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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)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " 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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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Learn more about Ben Bishin via [link] Podcast Highlights: “What becomes tricky with respect to an evenly split Senate is that there is actually, technically, not a majority within the Senate for purposes of operating.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Learn more about Ben Bishin via [link] Podcast Highlights: “What becomes tricky with respect to an evenly split Senate is that there is actually, technically, not a majority within the Senate for purposes of operating.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Podcast Highlights: “What becomes tricky with respect to an evenly split Senate is that there is actually, technically, not a majority within the Senate for purposes of operating. Ben Bishin on the topic of the future of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterm election cycle. Learn more about Ben Bishin via [link].

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. Anthony has posted operating income nearly every year since.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many companies and organisations have built in-house teams to accelerate (with mixed success) their access to specialist knowledge. While large technology companies like Google and Amazon operate to extract maximum value from big data, there is still a long way to go in the defence sector. In 2020, countries globally spent $1.9

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

They operate a number of regularly sized stores outside of Salt Lake City proper. Even though the Lee's was outside of our neighborhood, we shopped there occasionally because it is a couple blocks from the house of close friends. Sargeant Reynolds Community College plans to open in 2020.

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