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The Challenge of Performance Management in Community Development

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

The Center for Community Progress is exploring an emerging trend where land banks and land conservancies partner to implement vacant land stewardship. A land bank is a public entity with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals.

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Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

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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Finish Strong, as published in ABA Bank Compliance

CRA Today

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. Having this knowledge will provide the perspective needed to focus your performance management strategy in preparation for the upcoming CRA exam.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood.

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Vacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.

Center for Community Progress

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 CRA Tips

CRA Today

Are you looking to take your community development services to the next level? Episode 44: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services. Episode 42: I Bet You Are Underreporting Your Community Development Loans… Most Banks Are Too! Episode 29: How to Do the Undoable Deal.