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Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. In advocacy work, I have found that to be particularly true.
Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Andy is recognized as a thought leader and innovator when it comes to community and economic development. Andy’s policy and advocacy work has included efforts to ensure everyone has a voice in their community. He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).
Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Andy is recognized as a thought leader and innovator when it comes to community and economic development. Andy’s policy and advocacy work has included efforts to ensure everyone has a voice in their community. He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 26, 2023
Philadelphia's Design Advocacy Group, uniting more than 2,000 professional architects, designers, and planners, has come out against the proposal too, because it argues it will have a deadening effect on Market Street at the ground level (" A large Philly-based group of architects and designers just came out against the 76ers’ arena plan ," PI ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 1, 2025
Over the years, originally inspired by a "what you can do" list by Preservation Action Council of San Jose , I've developed a four-part series on what people can do to "celebrate" National Preservation Month. Preservation Action is a 501(c)4 advocacy group that advocates for specific legislation and is also a membership group.
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