Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.

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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. Ideally, families would once more be able to call these derelict properties home—but we were unsure exactly how to make that happen.

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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. A Mercy Housing Duplex, part of Phase VI of Savannah Gardens. Mercy Housing Apartments, part of phase VI of Savannah Gardens. Alison : I’m excited about two things.

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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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

But as I moved into work with nonprofits, I realized that outside of local governments, many organizations do not take advantage of the assistance provided by their elected officials. Your US Senators and Representatives create the federal legislation that leads to grant programs.

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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. I think that's reasonable.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On Thursday, February 9, 2023 the Furman Center hosted a Policy Breakfast titled The New York Housing Compact: Implications for NYC. The panelists discussed several issues covered by the first policy briefs in the Furman Center’s new series Critical Land Use and Housing Issues for New York State in 2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

health is a healthcare technology ( HealthTech ) nonprofit that uses geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) to improve the quality of healthcare. As a cloud-native organization, we began with Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances to house our spatial data infrastructures. Learn more about AWS for nonprofits.

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Grants4Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As we approach 2025 and the anticipated changes that a new federal administration will bring, nonprofit leaders, grant writers, and fundraisers must be proactive to safeguard and sustain their funding sources. Building these connections early ensures your nonprofit’s voice is heard and your mission is recognized by decision-makers.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

With that in mind, we were intrigued to read an excellent report that came out last week from the Citizen’s Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization that focuses on the finance and services of New York City and New York state government. Indeed, the federal government has been pushing for evidence.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

As the local government minister, Jim McMahon, told the House of Commons last week: When we talk about important community assets, we see from an economic point of view that it is far better for them to be used and be productive, but we also recognise that they are hugely important to community identity and pride.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In non-emergency situations, local government housing loans are authorized “only when the planning, construction, and financing of residential housing is not otherwise available to ‘persons and families of low income’” due to “the inability of private enterprise and investment, without assistance, to meet that need.” 29, 49, 50 (1970).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

Such groups may be necessary in the face of municipal budget cuts (" LAs Tree Emergency Goes Beyond Vandalism ," Planetizen) and failures by agencies (" Salt Lake Citys Public Lands Department accidentally poisons 200 trees ," Salt Lake Tribune ) and misguided legislators (" Are trees the enemy?

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