Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers." Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. s development team.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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 Air Advocacy In these letters to the editor of Backwoods Home, readers gain tips on canning garlic and mixed vegetables. Clean Energy Websites. Let us count the ways!

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. For more information, visit [link]. For more information, visit [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2024

That's pretty close to us, and Sugar House is where Sugar House Park is, where I'm on the board. Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree. There was an ice cream manufacturing plant, now slated for housing. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge.

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GovLoop

JUNE 12, 2024

Priorities for States Each year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) publishes federal advocacy priorities that represent areas of focus for the upcoming year and how states can collaborate with federal agencies, Congress, the White House and strategic partners. Here’s a look at recent developments.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. Tips for Working with Resource Development Staff Resources Notes. How Long Does It Take to Write a Grant Proposal? Taking the Lead in Finding and Applying to Grants a.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Both this entry and the previous one on White's Ferry ("R evisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties ") involve protest and advocacy as a way to get better policy outcomes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Tory has shown a “lack of vision and action” on pressing issues like the housing crisis that is “almost shameful,” Penalosa said in an interview. To join the ranks of great global cities like Paris, London or New York, he argues, Toronto needs a bold mayor.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

While I’m a certified park nerd (trademark pending), I wouldn’t recommend learning code for developing your intranet. Like any point of strategic adoption of technology, advocacy and support from your colleagues is often the missing link with adoption. It makes updating your policies a total pain – take it from my experience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it, after they realized the average community group didn't have the capacity to do it on their own. This week: How about volunteering in something?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. As a preservationist, I prefer not to tear down buildings.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. It was the house.

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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).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) A traffic lane was removed and an in-ROW bicycle lane was installed on 900 East adjacent to Fairmont Park.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Run a community advocacy program . For those of you preparing for local elections, now is the time to kick off your community advocacy program to ensure you access the necessary funds and meet the growing needs of your community. . Deliver on ‘climate emergency’ rhetoric. Make use of available funding.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact. We learned from implementors that strong technical assistance programs are key in helping state and local governments, and communities, apply for and manage federal funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role. Director of Development. Then check out a career on the development side, with the director being the one in charge of funds raised. Then check out a career on the development side, with the director being the one in charge of funds raised.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

“This is a great opportunity for our team of resident leaders to learn from other communities and experts, to bring good ideas home to Syracuse, and to work with neighbors to develop a project that will beautify and engage the community.”. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Water conservation.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For example, particularly in many developing countries, organizations that deliver direct services and depend on grants and donations to survive frequently have “foundation” as part of their names to indicate that they are charitable enterprises. Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Wales has developed three regional emergency response coordination centres, but the rest of the UK is not following suit. As a result, many of them have done relatively little to develop emergency response capability beyond existing 'blue light' capabilities. The local level. However, in these respects there is little sign of change.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

. -- Park Advisory Board: New Member Handbook , Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Similarly, parks with Friends groups--I participate in Friends of Fairmont Park because I think the parks in the area of Sugar House should be planned as a network--have the opportunity for more involvement compared to the average park.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Republicans are up in arms that the Biden Administration wants to make "conservation" a legitimate land use for the leasing of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (" House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal ," Roll Call ). Trails access, mountain and electric bikes. Security planning for trails.

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