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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Celebrating the 2022 Sammies honorees

Partnership for Public Service

Dr. Anthony Fauci, our 2020 Federal Employee of the Year , presented the award to his friend and colleague, saying that he “epitomizes the outstanding caliber of public servants found at the National Institutes of Health.”. These public servants coordinated the largest resettlement of refugees in modern U.S.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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Fresh Blogging: The Top 50 Clean Air Advocacy Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

IDEM – Clean Air Tip This site goes beyond the usual and shows you how to reduce your pollution contribution at the office and around the house. Clean Energy Fuels One of the last ways we vote is with our dollar, so learn about the companies that run their delivery trucks using clean fuels.

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House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes

Poverty & Policy

So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill. The House bill would eliminate the CFC program in 2020, cutting an estimated $12 billion in federal Medicaid funding in the first six years.

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