Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Increase health and wellbeing : Addressing problem properties can help reduce crime and improve personal and public health. The post What is a land bank?

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even at a time of record low housing supply, vacant and deteriorated properties—referred to by some as “blighted properties,” though the Center for Community Progress and others consider the term harmful and problematic*—exist in every community. See The Empty House Next Door for more information.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Environmental Where do environmental hazards put public health at risk? Still, public policies around zoning, environmental cleanup and other community planning issues often lead to increased risks in communities where constituents lack a say in policy decisions. Here are some examples of what can be done in key policy areas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

As the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) begins to wind down, starting April 1, 2023, state Medicaid agencies (SMAs) will have one year to “unwind” temporary COVID-era changes and return to pre-pandemic ways of working. See more Health and Human Services Cloud Resources here.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 6, 2024

But when property conditions harm its occupants, or the property’s deterioration threatens the safety of neighbors or the stability of the neighborhood, local governments need tools to step in. What can local government do to address vacant and “blighted” properties? What is code enforcement?

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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. As a result of this long-term decline, local governments in places grappling with systemic vacancy don’t have resources proportional to the scale of the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But that message isn’t getting through to our local government. Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond. As we talked to close to 200 Grays Ferry residents, the stories poured in.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health held last fall, a commitment was made to invest in local community and economic development to increase access to food (see page 12 of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health presented at the Conference).

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It will likely be more efficient for communities to pursue these activities under that Rule’s “public health and negative economic impacts” eligible use category, rather than trying to pursue them under the CDBG-eligible projects category. 8 What are the obligation and expenditure deadlines?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

DC isn't very big on public restrooms, although some federal parks have them (" Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? ," Bloomberg). This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A local government might clean up a dumping site only to get a call a few weeks later about more trash and debris in the same place. Illegal dumping has public health, economic, and environmental consequences. No one wants to look at a dump site when they leave the house. Why is illegal dumping a problem?

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The City Fix

JULY 5, 2024

Every three years, ICLEI hosts the ICLEI World Congress to showcase how subnational actors advance sustainable urban development worldwide. The most recent installment, ICLEI World Congress 2024, held June 18-21 in São Paulo, Brazil, converged over 1,500 global attendees to.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Since President Joe Biden launched the Justice40 Initiative in January 2021, over $600 billion has been designated for more than 500 programs across 19 federal agencies. This funding supports climate-related infrastructure initiatives with a commitment to ensuring 40% of the benefits reach.

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