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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio Tax Foreclosure Reform: Precursor to Ohio’s County Land Banks.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact I was featured on the front page of the Metro section, albeit below the fold, in the Washington Post on Labor Day 2003, on the issue, in an article written by Craig Timberg. In the early 2000s!

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Really, the revitalization management process is never ending. Adaptive management/Continuous process improvement/stasis versus dynamism as element eight. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. The city did a plan for the area around 2003.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters (I know this happened at Springfield).

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). s Black arts scene ," Post ).