Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Washington Post article, " Kids getting burned on swings and slides? Main playground at Sugar House Park. (A Interestingly, this is an issue that I want Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City to deal with. Fitts Park. They've also produced what looks to be a very good Guide to Climate-Friendly Playgrounds.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 21, 2025

This article explores the significance of benchmarking and how it benefits businesses across different sectors. Clients include commercial organisations operating in all market sectors, including county, city, and metropolitan borough councils, NHS trusts, housing associations, universities, charities, and government departments.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 29, 2023

The Salt Lake Tribune has an article, " Utah needs 41,000 units of affordable housing. From the article: The Legislature significantly expanded a tax credit that has been called the most important source of financing for affordable housing in history At $200,000 per unit, to build 41,000 units requires $8.2

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

North Carolina suffers from a lack of affordable housing options for low and moderate income households. In a May 2022 post , Tyler outlined many of the ways in which North Carolina’s local governments can aid the development of privately owned affordable housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. They’re interested in preserving their hotel or railroad station or a neighborhood.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. This comes up because of the Chicago Sun-Times article, " City’s test of additional dwelling units finds most takers in gentrified wards." Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Toronto Star reports (" Curse of the renter: In some neighbourhoods, not owning a home now costs more than owning one ") that renters there are paying more for housing than housing owners in some parts of the city. This results in part because an increasing share of the rental housing sector is owned and managed by large firms.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. 3sBeDBa By 2040 the # of households headed by 80+ year olds will double but we don’t have the right housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. From the fourth article: In MacArthur Park, its not as if the problems have been ignored, nor are they easy to fix.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 29, 2025

Other examples of brownfield properties include vacant lots with chronic illegal dumping , and housing built before 1989. While both private developers and public entitieslike land banks can redevelop brownfields, this article focuses on brownfield redevelopment for communities where there is widespread property vacancy and abandonment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 1, 2024

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. DFI in the news: Report on upcoming Transylvania housing summit cites UNC DFI research in Brevard.

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The Whistle Post

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It is located in the community center of Elm City Communities’ Mill River Crossing housing complex. A national organization dedicated to helping prepare women for the workforce with professional attire and career development is now partnering with New Haven’s housing authority.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Personally, I don't see the bridge park as a likely high velocity augur of gentrification because it isn't located near housing, on either side of the river. And that's my criticism of cities (and DC) and housing policy more generally. Anyway, the Washington Post has an article, " A ‘clerical error’ could cost D.C.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2025

” To find out more about how agencies are improving their customer experience, download it here: Get the Guide Photo by Leah Newhouse at Pexels.com Favorite

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the hotel industry in New York City, policymakers considered whether to promote the reuse of distressed hotel buildings as housing. In a new white paper , the NYU Furman Center’s Noah Kazis details essential background information on the matter of hotel-to-housing conversions.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

He’s laid out a sample curriculum for basic in-house AI training but says most agencies feel the need to bring in expert trainers. This article appeared in our guide, “Getting Practical With AI.” Shark also recommends overcoming fears with information.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

That's why a Philadelphia Inquirer article, " A new cafe at Kimmel is the first step to a better arts center ," by Peter Dobrin, the paper's classical music critic is so great. Competition for leisure time is stiff, and getting people to leave their houses, a challenge.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 31, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. News and Observer article: [link] bit.ly/45rV6R4 45rV6R4 The market’s answer to demand for affordable housing? Manufactured housing.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 29, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. US Treasury revised ARPA SLFRF eligibility to allow loans for 20+ year restricted affordable housing for those earning 65% AMI or below. smid=tw-share ….

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

-- High rates and prices make it less affordable to own a home in Canada , Royal Bank of Canada In some markets, 80% to 102% of median income is required to own and maintain a house. One group can't afford housing at today's prices. OTOH, in the US the Wall Street Journal reports on " The Rise of the Forever Renters."

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 28, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Federal Reserve Bank article describes food desert program in a rural area that brings groceries to a central point in town.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. And the development doesn't look like it's affordable housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Playhouse Square Development Corporation, and Jubilee Housing of Baltimore (focused on live work housing) are particularly good examples. Housing market, venture capital and single family housing as rentals. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords ," NPR).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. So there is a current article in the Post (" Departing DC planner Harriet Tregoning hailed as 'forward-thinking public servant ") and a previous article in the City Paper (" Urbanista!:

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Vacant house and lots in the Larimer neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Better off segments have the money to maintain aging houses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 10, 2023

The Washington Post has an article, " D.C.’s s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing ," about how proposals for a new Chevy Chase Community Center, incorporating a variety of improvements as well as housing above, which could be either 100% affordable housing or partial, are being met by opposition.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 31, 2024

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina: NC Housing Finance Agency blogs about latest data on housing cost burden in North Carolina.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 2, 2024

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. The Development Finance Initiative (DFI) is advising the City of Salisbury NC on how to redevelop the 12-acre brownfields site into new affordable housing.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….” October 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

nd building awareness and interest in the institution and the community (" House of Art(s) to open at the Springfield Art Museum ," Springfield News-Leader ), " Drury Students to help with De-Installation of Springfield Art Museum Exhibit ," Ozarks First, " Space as event as ouevre ," Gerard Nadeau). Again, I think this is community building.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 1, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. 42NOmg0 Politico examines the value of collecting better “housing loss” data – foreclosures, evictions, eminent domain, etc.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Focus on affordable housing in downtown Asheville and mixed-income/use development on Ferry Road: [link]. DFI partnership with Buncombe County kicks off.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

AUGUST 31, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina: NC Housing Finance Agency blog: Nearly One Million Low-Income North Carolinians Live in Unaffordable Housing.

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