A dispute over Amtrak funding derailed a vote on THUD
GCN
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The House GOP’s Transportation and Housing and Urban Development funding bill would cut $8 billion from the departments. But that’s not what scuttled the vote.
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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. The program has been quite successful (" After Years Of Violence, L.A.'s Theyre going to try ," LA Daily News ).The
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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
Development of new housing and retail is happening even outside of the city core, albeit mostly centered around subway stations (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Takoma, U Street), but even in a couple areas (14th Street, H Street) where subway access is tangential. U Street NW. Revival spreads beyond the city core.
Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.
House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes
Poverty & Policy
MAY 12, 2017
So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill. Agencies may further support living at home by providing hands-on help with tasks like meal preparation, light housework and transportation. They can also get equipment to assist them and training on how to use it.
America is at a crossroads with its infrastructure future
American City & Country
AUGUST 23, 2024
It’s designed for a range of civil projects from energy to water to transportation systems and acts as a guide for engineers to develop and implement practices that promote sustainability and long-term reliability of infrastructure projects. The Senate passed its bill by unanimous consent in August, and the House passed its version in July.
Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 27, 2024
Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.
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