The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2024

As lawmakers in Albany debate how to fix New York’s housing affordability crisis, a new research brief by the NYU Furman Center examines the possible effects of how a good cause eviction requirement might affect tenants, landlords, and the housing market.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Furman Center faculty directors Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Kathy O’Regan recently released “ Supply Skepticism Revisited ”, highlighting the latest rigorous research that draws out the nuanced effects housing supply has on housing affordability. 16 hosted at the NYU School of Law.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

This blog post attempts to identify which of these property tax breaks that might be relevant to a local government’s community and economic development plans. Under that exclusion, qualifying farmland is taxed at its present use (farming) rather than its true market value (for development). Low- & moderate-income housing ( G.S.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two years ago, Missouri State House Representative Kevin Windham began asking questions to try to understand why there were so many vacant and abandoned properties in the communities he represented in suburban St. Louis County Land Bank Coalition , which includes local community development corporations, neighborhood associations, the St.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Projects relying on the 421-a completion extension in tandem with Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) are expected to deliver both more housing and deeper affordability to several neighborhoods across the city, according to a recent data analysis by the NYU Furman Center. Uneven development patterns continue.

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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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GovPilot

MARCH 16, 2023

New Jersey recently passed new legislation to expedite construction processes by codifying a 3 business day turnaround for inspections of affordable housing construction sites when an inspection is requested by the developer.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. This is an extremely significant development in my view. 28 But, surprisingly, the Report (p.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. I wondered.

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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. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 27, 2022

On July 13, Community Progress CEO and President Dr. Akilah Watkins spoke before the The US House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee in a hearing called “Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and The American Housing Crisis.” Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on America’s housing unaffordability crisis. .

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the hotel industry in New York City, policymakers considered whether to promote the reuse of distressed hotel buildings as housing. In a new white paper , the NYU Furman Center’s Noah Kazis details essential background information on the matter of hotel-to-housing conversions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

In textbooks on organizational psychology, behavior and development, there is an extended discussion of boundary spanning, where people have conflicting responsibilities to different groups with different priorities. Our house is detached, and five miles from Downtown (but 3/4 mile from a Metrorail station). U Street NW.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 10, 2025

The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (NHIA) was reintroduced in the US House of Representatives on April 10, 2025, drawing renewed bipartisan support for revitalizing distressed housing markets and expanding homeownership opportunities. The 2025 version of NHIA also gives states more flexibility to address local housing gaps.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” State laws gives land banks their unique powers.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets. Community Progress has supported TCLB from the land bank’s inception and was recently engaged to lead the development of its 2023-27 Strategic Plan.

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The Market Urbanism Report

APRIL 7, 2019

California and Oregon both consider state housing bills that will allow dense development near transit. Can this become model housing legislation elsewhere?

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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. the legislation establishing them). 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

A property tax exemption in New York City is necessary to make rental housing development financially feasible across the city’s varied markets, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The bipartisan legislation, currently making its way through Congress, aims to reauthorize and strengthen the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), which has enabled agencies to modernize legacy systems , enhance cybersecurity and improve service delivery to citizens, through 2031.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From the article: During a worsening housing affordability crisis, New York City landlords are keeping tens of thousands of rent-stabilized units off the market — a phenomenon tenant activists call “warehousing.” The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) repealed both vacancy bonuses and vacancy decontrol.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 14, 2023

For communities with a large number of these so-called “ blighted properties ”—the result of decades of disinvestment, population loss, and unjust land and housing policy—the challenge is how to stop those properties from harming their communities and get them back to productive use equitably, efficiently, and effectively.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Identify untapped market potential to build stronger housing markets. Understanding the dynamics of small areas like individual properties, blocks, and neighborhoods is key to developing revitalization strategies tailored to block-by-block needs. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 9, 2023

Why migrating to public cloud computing is essential to achieve Net Zero targets and drive meaningful change in the UK public sector Leading from the front in a bid to tackle the existential threat of climate change, the UK was the first major world economy to legislate for a binding net zero emissions target by 2050.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2023 so far, at least 27 states and territories have pursued more than 80 bills related to AI, including legislation to study, restrict or prohibit its use. And the overwhelmingly bipartisan law established a new working group charged with adopting a Connecticut-specific AI bill of rights based on a White House AI Bill of Rights blueprint.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 31, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 12, 2022

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) faces both immense challenges and historic opportunities. Currently, significant federal funds for public housing capital needs are looking less likely in Washington, while the fate of NYCHA’s ambitious “Blueprint for Change” remains uncertain in Albany.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Open hybrid cloud offers a way forward, offering the ability to keep some applications in-house, and to scale when necessary in the cloud, without the risk of over-subscribing to services you aren’t using. You might want to keep some applications and services on premise, whether for security or other reasons.”

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. A recent great example is the Water Resources Development Act.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

I quickly learned about the power of relationships, particularly when building programs and developing grant proposals. Your US Senators and Representatives create the federal legislation that leads to grant programs. For more details about local government grant seeking, check out this blog post.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 22, 2023

Why you need a consultant for AI advice Most organisations do not have the experience and skills in-house to navigate these ethical systems and bias challenges associated with implementing AI. Therefore, organisations must develop ethical systems, policies, and processes for using AI in their business.

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