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2023 Roundup: Federal Policy Developments in Neighborhood Revitalization 

Center for Community Progress

FHA Improvements to the 203(k) Rehab Mortgage Program The 203(k) rehab mortgage program allows a person to buy a house that needs to be rehabbed or modernized by consolidating the finance of the home purchase and cost of rehabilitation through a single mortgage. It also lets homeowners finance the rehabilitation of their existing home. 

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How Can Agencies Mitigate Risks of Using AI?

GovLoop

The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management will create policies and procedures governing such AI assessments and clarifying how agencies must develop, procure and implement their AI systems. Among other objectives, the working group will make recommendations for additional AI legislation. .

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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

Although implementing the recommendations has not been without difficulty, the city had the organizational infrastructure, data collection expectations, and working relationships in place to do so. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

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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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. The Times article is more photo essay, but like the Equinox Studios article, has some kernels of wisdom on how properties have been able to remain comparatively low rent.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Finally, I will present a list of various pragmatic actions from which policymakers can select several they view as most well-suited for implementation. This includes imposing higher capital and liquidity requirements, as well as implementing resolution planning 12 and other requirements.