The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. In communities across the country, organizations, philanthropists, and government are working hard to make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Clarity Human Services runs on AWS. The 2022 U.S.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The house has a toilet and electricity, but the costs for both. Owusu lives with his wife and four children in the Tantra Hills neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, where he shares his residence with five other tenants and their families. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Although tenant participation is becoming more common when it comes to planning social housing, the ability for tenants to influence their landlords remains considerably limited. One issue is that there simply isn’t enough affordable housing available. Social housing white paper in the UK. Social housing white paper in the UK.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 24, 2023

NKCDC uses a strategic combination of real estate development, community engagement, and people-centered direct services to ensure all of our neighbors can remain—and thrive—where they choose to live.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In writing the previous post on schools as neighborhood anchors, I referenced the Planning Whole Communities Toolkit , by the Puget Sound Regional Council.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 1, 2024

The dominant narrative is that neighbourhood with easy access to the outdoors or that have maintained community engagement amid the rise of working-from-home have experienced strong increases in property values. As individuals change their neighbourhoods preferences, the housing market reflects these adjustments.

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Social Pinpoint

AUGUST 28, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore three benefits of diversity in community engagement: Diversity can help groups to analyze the facts more clearly. So, it’s important to think about how we can capture feedback from as many different community members as possible if we want to make thoughtful, people-led decisions.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 24, 2023

NKCDC uses a strategic combination of real estate development, community engagement, and people-centered direct services to ensure all of our neighbors can remain—and thrive—where they choose to live.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Settle on a general answer to these questions: Age range Income Education level Living situation (Married, single, living with multiple generations in one house, living in an apartment, unhoused, etc.) Values community engagement and local events. Current library usage Then you want to add depth to your persona.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With over half of the world’s population living in cities, urban spaces not only house us but offer opportunities for collective work and learning while serving as sources of creativity, inspiration and hope. Nevertheless, cities also account for a staggering.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In Mathare – a collection of informal settlements northeast of Nairobi, Kenya, housing more than 500,000 residents – heat is reshaping daily existence. Most buildings in Mathare are constructed from materials like corrugated metal, which trap and magnify heat, forcing.

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The City Fix

MARCH 3, 2021

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Maybe it’s increased feedback points throughout the constitute journey, benchmarking community satisfaction or experimenting with your engagement toolkit. More on the trends changing community engagement here. Want to discuss these trends further with fellow community engagement practitioners?

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The City Fix

APRIL 10, 2020

The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are still being understood, but it does seem clear that this crisis will make a mark on cities, physically and socially, that will echo for generations. How we plan our cities has always. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The King Hill Community Garden is at the former home of Claudette Colvin , a 15-year-old arrested for refusing to get up from her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. Despite Colvin’s historical significance, her house was abandoned, and has deteriorated over time. Volunteers gathered together at King Hill Community Garden.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2020

City life can be deeply unfair. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how differently the rich and poor are able to cope with lockdowns, from ability to work from home to access to green space. The pandemic’s. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JUNE 13, 2022

What makes Vitoria-Gasteiz stand out is the coordinated action its leaders and community. Like many European cities in the 20th century, Vitoria-Gasteiz, capital of the Basque Country in Spain, experienced rapid population growth, followed by increased motorization and urban sprawl. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 9, 2023

The latest UN climate conference, COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, was a significant one for cities in many respects. Delegates established a new fund to help vulnerable countries deal with loss and damages from climate impacts, and some of.

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The City Fix

APRIL 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruptive new normal for everyone through shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. But for the billions of urban poor, these guidelines aren’t just burdensome; they’re essentially impossible. Social distancing is a critically important response. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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The City Fix

MAY 13, 2021

Monterrey, like other major Mexican cities, rapidly expanded outward during the end of the 20th century. New policies favored investment in new suburban neighborhoods, attracting residents and businesses to the periphery, and provoking several decades of insecurity and population decline. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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zencity

JANUARY 19, 2023

We can’t wait to head to these cities to discuss how to tackle current and future issues facing local leaders, and to understand how community engagement is evolving. After a three-year conference hiatus, it is sure to be a full house. See you there! We’re thrilled to be CAMA’s newest business partner!

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. With current policies putting the world on.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., This was a childcare measure among others. Capital City Public Charter School, DC. but it fell off.

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The City Fix

JULY 30, 2024

When you hear “infrastructure,” most people naturally think of the physical built environment — roads, bridges, buildings. There’s a lot less emphasis on other kinds of infrastructure that are equally as important, like civic infrastructure. Civic infrastructure encompasses a broad.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In many modern cities, the development of a collective consciousness is hampered by the problems of urban living: expensive, sub-standard housing, which is in short supply; exploitation through poor, badly remunerated working conditions; pollution, overcrowding, and so on.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Located in the western India state of Maharashtra, the city of Pune has a rich history as a center of higher learning. In recent decades, Pune has transformed into a hub for the country’s software, automobile and electronics industries, leading to exponential.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More than 20 million students in the United States ride school buses every year. This equals approximately 7 billion trips per year, making school buses one of the most widely used forms of public transport in the United States.  But those trips aren’t always.

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zencity

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Building a community engagement strategy. Start your community engagement process NOW. Federal granting programs have all said that grantees with community engagement plans in their applications will be more competitive. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Think about equity.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 19, 2024

Few of the smaller towns and villages along the Choptank have paid staff, and even many of the larger ones lack in-house expertise on water-related issues. The organization is a coalition of nonprofits, government agencies, scientists and community groups that work across boundaries to protect and restore the Choptank’s health.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In November 2021, the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal of new federal investment in America’s infrastructure. The Need for Digital Community Engagement on Infrastructure Projects.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Community engagement facilities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Park Leaders

JANUARY 21, 2025

Her team works closely with the National Park Service and the National Park Friends Alliance to advance innovation, inclusion, and community engagement. One project that stood out during our conversation was the renovation of St.

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