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Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Recently, I thought about demolition of historic buildings in cities like Detroit as deaths, and that they were worthy of a listing in my annual article on "Urbanism-related Obituaries (2022)." 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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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court. Research Questions.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Community Development Loan Workshop: [link] .

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Democrats, who lost control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 election because of crime demonization being particularly effective in Greater New York City, didn't want to be on the wrong side of this issue. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transit access is more complicated even because "choice riders"--people with cars--see transit more as a social service, not a vital community service. Urban design and minority communities. Another indicator is tree cover, which significantly lags (" Since When Have Trees Existed Only for Rich Americans? ," New York Times ).