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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Decker, Andrew.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too.

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What Are CIOs Thinking in 2022

Barrett & Greene

Our series about the future of state and local government jobs , is being published this week by Route Fifty. and demanding more from government.”. When asked if their states had passed legislation addressing citizen data privacy, 37 percent said yes in 2022 compared with 29 percent in 2020.

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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

You need to craft data-driven narratives that connect with the intended audience, whether government officials, legislators or constituents. More Data on Tap Over the past year, Batemans team has been digging deeper into data from the 2020 Decennial Census, with a focus on race and ethnicity. Its not enough to dig up good data.

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May is National Historic Preservation Month | Why after almost 60 years since the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, is preservation such a hard slog?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Despite all Kenney’s talk about respecting the city’s treasures, we saw the commission’s board cut a deal with developer Leo Addimando in 2020 to significantly modify International House on the very day it placed the award-winning student dormitory in West Philadelphia on the city’s historic register.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. ” [link]. [9] ” [link]. [26]

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance. I proudly wear my “51” hat.