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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.
Reprogramming the City
MARCH 22, 2022
We’re obviously a big fan of interesting ideas for repurposing existing urban objects – we even wrote the definitive book on the subject. The owners hope to see the house last upwards of 100 years. If you like repurposing projects, you’ll LOVE the Reprogramming the City books. Product on sale. $
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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 ?
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The street is paved with flagstones and parking is forbidden by law. We have even pointed out that Pope Francis says that obeying minor laws is important, a Christian duty and an example to others. If the police fine her, then they are at fault and so is the law. Pantheon Books, New York 306 pp. Herman, E.S. Chomsky 1988.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
OCTOBER 14, 2021
On September 22, the NYU Furman Center hosted a conversation with Sheryll Cashin, author of White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality and Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University. The conversation proceeded to address ways we might create change.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 25, 2023
Boston is promoting digital library access at 20 bus stops (" Borrowing books on the bus? Libraries in places like Orange County, California and Calgary have put in book lending stations at transit stations in their communities for more than a decade. It’s happening in Boston ," Boston Globe ). It's not particularly pathbreaking.
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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