Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. The need for police + social services = community safety partnership.

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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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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. CRA Partners is a turnkey CRA compliance program powered by the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " The state of "broken windows" versus "problem oriented policing" strategies in 2016: Part 1, theory and practice ," (2016) (references the speech by Ronald Clarke upon receiving the Stockholm Prize in Criminology) -- " The state of "broken windows" versus "problem oriented policing" strategies in 2016: Part 2, what to do ," (2016) -- " Social (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

But after a 2020 election when perceptions of being soft on crime hurt many Democratic candidates, the D.C. How about "Reconstruct Policing"? ," 2020 -- " Towards a public safety model that is broader than policing ," 2020 Note that my writings on equity and social urbanism come out of a desire to try to break the cycle of urban poverty.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, " Making bus service sexy and more equitable " (2012) discusses how investment in bus systems, network breadth and depth, and streetcars is a benefit for the transit dependent. Transit access is more complicated even because "choice riders"--people with cars--see transit more as a social service, not a vital community service.

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