Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 To Open Dec. Nor did a store on East Capitol.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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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.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 28, 2024

When you live next door to a long-abandoned house or down the street from a vacant lot that’s a magnet for illegal dumping , it’s easy to feel powerless to do anything about it. Vacant or “ blighted ” properties—whether dilapidated, abandoned homes or vacant, overgrown lots— harm neighbors and neighborhoods. This process takes years.

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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. Any contact between F&F and elected officials is strictly controlled by the FHFA. This was all laid out by Congress in their charters (i.e.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Most people probably think of it as speed bumps, but there are many different treatments.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What we’re finding that resonates with our elected officials is loss of trust by the public. To entice county officials to participate in a tabletop exercise to help prepare for 2022 election threats, Godsey’s team phrased the invitation simply, explaining the potential fallout from a cyber breach. “We

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 12, 2023

So city elected officials seem to think it is the responsibility of the county while the county officials, because the park is in the City, see it more as a city facility. The land use and viewshed context for Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City. Sugar House Park landscape design and architecture.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority. A cultural shift is already under way in Bethlehem in getting elected officials and the private and nonprofit sectors on board with prioritizing blight management.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They are chosen by elected officials and can work for small towns on a part time basis or for large cities. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? They are responsible for assisting families and youth with finding affordable housing. City Manager. Case Manager.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And the Post has an interesting article about how Amtrak at DC's Union Station has contracted with nonprofit organizations to work with homeless in the station catchment area on moving to permanent housing, getting necessary services, etc. (" Can we solve homelessness? A program at Union Station is a huge step ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Funds for small projects.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Kamau Bell emceed the awards program, which welcomed agency leaders, members of Congress and the media, and others from the public, private and nonprofit sectors, including bestselling author Michael Lewis, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, White House Cabinet Secretary Evan Ryan and Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); commitment and time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. DC's core is comprised of rowhouses and apartment buildings, while the outer city is a mix of attached and detached single family housing and clusters of apartments, especially on arterials. U Street NW.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction In April, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially solicited public comment on a proposal from Freddie Mac, one of the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) it oversees, to begin a pilot program to finance closed-end second (CES) mortgages. It seems clear it would not.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

But there may well be political reasons why such research isn’t done, not the least of which is that elected officials can get lots of mileage out of announcing major economic development initiatives, and they may not want to know exactly how well they’ve panned out. Indeed, the federal government has been pushing for evidence.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 25, 2024

While various elected officials are talking receivership, they haven't already developed such powers, making quick action difficult. One of the reasons the company is in financial distress is that the real estate ownership was separated from hospitals, so they have to pay big rent bills, on which they are behind.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. gentrification crisis?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the worlds population went to the ballot box some voting for radical change extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Elected officials didn't make those decisions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

In Chicago, new mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a higher transfer tax rate on properties selling for more than $1 million, to pay for affordable housing. I don't understand why elected officials can't figure this out. Real estate transfer tax in Chicago. My point is pretty clear. Losing sucks.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. Pete Lund, (House Speaker) Jase Bolger, (Rep.) Image: Washington Post. Following the *audacity* that Rep. Jim Stamas, and (Rep.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Interestingly, the local high school newspaper gets it even if elected officials and automobile dependent folks do not, " MOVE Culver City: Rethinking Urban Mobility in the Heart of Screenland ," Culver City High Centaurian. The project, called Move Culver City , was a 1.3 transit ," LAT. New York Wont Budge ," New York Times ).

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. The chief strategist in the White House ran a website that he designed to serve as a “platform for the alt-right” movement that heavily featured white supremacists. The checks and balances of the U.S. And nothing will happen.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. The election results seem to reduce that likelihood significantly. I'm finally learning not to prognosticate too much. Richmond, Virginia. Conclusion.

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