Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. For example, land banks in New York are: Expanding the Production of Affordable Housing. Advancing Racial Equity.

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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 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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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations. It's what you call a "priming effect." CDC,s can be such a tool.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In any case, most banks will have at least one more CRA examination before the new finalized regulations are implemented, and it’s important to put the bank ’ s best face forward. Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities; 2. Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Marimba Milliones is president and CEO of the Hill Community Development Corporation. From the second article: Mr. Buccini’s comments came in response to a proposal by the Hill Community Development Corporation to impose a $2 surcharge on each car parked in the garage and another $2 surcharge on each ticket sold at the music venue.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Vacant lots are often viewed as pieces within larger systems, such as urban planning or community development, or overlooked entirely. Redefining vacant land as a system also highlights the importance of engaging stakeholders in achieving community development goals.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. This was all laid out by Congress in their charters (i.e.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

Below, we’ve listed the five trends we have mapped as the top 2023 online community engagement trends. The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. We couldn’t agree more.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

As the first municipality in Canada to implement online PBB, this will result in Strathcona County being more proactive, strategic and effective in program and service delivery. with two-way communication through the community hall consultations that have gone on out there. We have our rural public.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Neighborhood groups had to come together to come up with and implement a program of community improvements. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Each year a "Neighborhood Convention" unveiled the projects to the community. This week: How about volunteering in something?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Competition for leisure time is stiff, and getting people to leave their houses, a challenge. how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?) It’s no accident that arts centers everywhere are becoming more sensitive to atmosphere and user experience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? Can cities step up and take a more direct, assertive, and agile role in this process? There are six large city parks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. 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?

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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

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

Over the last decade, Sydneys cultural infrastructure has shrunk by the equivalent of three Sydney Opera Houses, Lord Mayor Clover Moore will tell cultural leaders. Council analysis of the 2021 census found the number of artists, musicians, writers in greater Sydney fell by 11.6

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In non-emergency situations, local government housing loans are authorized “only when the planning, construction, and financing of residential housing is not otherwise available to ‘persons and families of low income’” due to “the inability of private enterprise and investment, without assistance, to meet that need.” Section V.B.2

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

From the article: In theory, the bill will give communities a head start over private investors in bidding to save, run and, in some cases, repurpose valued buildings and assets.

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