Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

If you’re wondering “What can I do about vacant properties in my community?” Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 7, 2024

As New York City faces its worst housing crisis in over 50 years, policymakers are looking to connect affordable housing developers with a range of institutional stakeholders from hospitals to faith-based organizations to find ways to increase the supply of homes. Finally, sustainability is a major consideration.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 30, 2022

The CRA’s core purpose is to combat the impacts and legacies of redlining—an expressly racist policy that has contributed enormously to the present racial wealth and homeownership gaps —by regulating how financial institutions lend and make investments in low- and moderate-income communities. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

I wrote about it here: -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities " (2021) in the process, updating my evaluative framework for siting and building arenas and stadiums.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v. Housing Authorities Law. Chapter 157).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

That's the point behind this blog entry: -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities " which is aimed at identifying the characteristics that make for an arena that is more successful for the local community.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 7] Another key change was that the original focus on housing was broadened to include community development. This works as follows.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc., And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is divided among the remaining family members, or heirs. In response to this growing issue, LISC partnered with local community development corporations to canvass door-to-door and host educational community workshops.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16 hosted at the NYU School of Law. At the very least, it has to be treated like a campaign,” said Michelle de la Uz, the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, a Brooklyn-based community development corporation that develops and manages affordable housing, referring to building new development.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 10, 2025

Find a Land Bank Near You Eighteen states and Puerto Rico have passed laws allowing the creation of land banks. Depending on what a states laws allow, land banks can operate at the city, county, regional, or even state level. There are over 350 land banks and land banking programs throughout the country.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A drawing of David Yager, former president of University of the Arts, is on a column outside Hamilton Hall on their campus in Philadelphia, Wednesday June 5, 2024 as students, staff, and faculty rally before marching to 1500 Market and another rally in front of the former law offices of UArts chair Jud Aaron.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. 1] Local government legal authority to offer home repair loans is limited under state law.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Memphis, Tennessee CRF Fellows Phyllis Duckett How did you first get involved in supporting revitalization efforts in your community? As of right now I am just getting started in community development Whats one thing you love about your community? Whats one thing you love about your community?

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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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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