Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Somehow I came across a program by the museum which had community members go through the collection, especially items in storage and create exhibits of their reactions. Again, I think this is community building. The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. The 203(k) program has the potential to be a vital community revitalization tool and homeownership opportunity for owner-occupant homebuyers.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. Priority 2: Facilitate Community Resiliency Through Vacant Land Reclamation Vacant land (i.e.,

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

To qualify a community development service, it has to have a primary purpose of community development, be offered on behalf of the bank, and must be related to the provision of financial services. 12(i)–3: What are examples of community development services?

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I developed a reputation for finding solutions and as a result stepped in to lead the Blight Authority of Memphis. A Mercy Housing Duplex, part of Phase VI of Savannah Gardens.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 26, 2023

We spoke with the Albany County Land Bank Corporation ’s Executive Director Adam Zaranko about affordable housing initiatives, the importance of diversified partnerships, and what’s coming up for the Land Bank in 2023. The program emerged from a National Technical Assistance Scholarship through the Center for Community Progress.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Listen to hear Linda describe her vision for the CRA Hub and other community development thoughts. CRA Partners is a turnkey CRA compliance program powered by the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation. Senior Crimestoppers is funded exclusively by the banking industry.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Identify untapped market potential to build stronger housing markets. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly. Full recordings of each session can be viewed by visiting the Community Progress YouTube channel. Couldn’t join us?

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

We are the only national nonprofit providing urban, suburban, and rural communities battling systemic vacancy with the policies, tools, and resources needed to address the full cycle of property revitalization. You can create a curriculum around exactly what matters to your community. When : October 9-11, 2024.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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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. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021. Speak with a unified voice.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

APRIL 12, 2021

This account calls people to action, promotes mutual aids, keeps the city informed with news and resources, and educates the city on the intersections of Blackness. After volunteering with a Germantown Soup Kitchen at the age of 11, Rasheed attended Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice to explore community service.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

APRIL 12, 2021

This account calls people to action, promotes mutual aids, keeps the city informed with news and resources, and educates the city on the intersections of Blackness. After volunteering with a Germantown Soup Kitchen at the age of 11, Rasheed attended Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice to explore community service.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

policy development/legal approach (creating a formal structure or framework backed by government), a non-profit organizational or educational service approach (support for food banks, pantries, Meals on Wheels, or summer meals programs, for example), or. This program targets both economic development and community development.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 14, 2023

For communities with a large number of these so-called “ blighted properties ”—the result of decades of disinvestment, population loss, and unjust land and housing policy—the challenge is how to stop those properties from harming their communities and get them back to productive use equitably, efficiently, and effectively.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

," 2023 -- " Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus? ," 2024 -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities ," 2021 The deal called for at least $1.35

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues. Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

While this criticism can be extended to most services delivered by bureaucratic organizations, it's definitely the case that students in public schools are "customers" too, and thinking about and addressing their comfort likely will have a positive impact on educational outcomes. There are six large city parks.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, there are many more pieces on this broad topic as I was trying to figure things out. -- " The community development approach and the revitalization of DC's H Street corridor: congruent or oppositional approaches? Park Pride, the Atlanta area friends of the parks organization, has an annual conference.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

You find a local home repair program and help your parents fill out an application, only to find out that they do not qualify because they do not have legal ownership—or title —to the house. The owner’s grandson, who grew up and lived in the house with his grandmother, wanted to buy the property to keep it in his family.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Both say they want the facilities to be community centric, good neighbors, contribute to the community, etc. Utah Health say they want the WVC facility to promote jobs and educational opportunities for the Valley's west side. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I have been interested in the opportunity for higher education infused urban revitalization for decades. Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc., EMU and ASL haven't had much impact.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. The idea that the point of government investment in community improvement wasn't to build dependency, but to stoke conditions to the point where private actors would continue to invest and improve on their own, without government assistance.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I am proud of the work that Steel Magnolias of Louisiana is currently doing in our community. Recently, I have worked with a group of community members interested in the preservation of the community.We A major part of the process is looking into affordable housing and mixed-use properties, restoring medical and retail infrastructure.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This triggered the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) a unique law that requires companies. In 2019, Stellantis (then known as Fiat Chrysler) announced a $2.5 billion plan to expand and modernize two of its auto assembly plants in Detroit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2025

Federal law requires these awards to be managed and distributed by national intermediaries; HUDs own guidance for these awards, which are meant to provide support for capacity-building and community development, requires recipients to advance housing justice and support underserved communities.

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