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City of Humboldt Open House Brings Priority Based Budget to Public

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. Some of these numbers can be deceiving since money can be spent on one program that fits many city goals. That paints a picture that Hardy says the city did not have before.

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From Harm to Home: Replicating Detroit’s Make it Home Program

Center for Community Progress

The City of Detroit’s innovative Make it Home program harnesses the power of a traditionally harmful system—the property tax foreclosure process—and uses it to increase affordable homeownership, improve housing conditions, and stabilize neighborhoods. Make it Home is a “win-win-win” for tenants, neighborhoods, and the City.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result. It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. gentrification crisis?

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Extend the building underground and up (maybe have to buy a couple houses) to put in an underground auditorium/space (perhaps on the C Street side) to replace but continue the arts functions of North Hall, and put in an underground pool.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. Can Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.