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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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What can neighbors do about vacant buildings and lots?

Center for Community Progress

When you live next door to a long-abandoned house or down the street from a vacant lot that’s a magnet for illegal dumping , it’s easy to feel powerless to do anything about it. Vacant or “ blighted ” properties—whether dilapidated, abandoned homes or vacant, overgrown lots— harm neighbors and neighborhoods. This process takes years.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.) Most people probably think of it as speed bumps, but there are many different treatments.

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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role. They are chosen by elected officials and can work for small towns on a part time basis or for large cities. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? Executive Director.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element. Later they built an Intermodal Center, providing at the time a bike shop and inter city bus connections too.