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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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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)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1

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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

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. Again DC has a great example as c. 2000 it was national best practice in terms of improving streetscapes in commercial districts, significantly boosting success of those areas.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

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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

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. They often bring their own food, etc. ( I can't think of a worse walk.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.