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

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008. The trend continued for the next several years.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts. Additionally, other recommendations were made to update aspects of how the FHLBanks operate to reflect the current environment rather than what existed many decades ago.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening.

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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But I think the primary purpose is to make it harder for Walmart and Target to open stores in areas where Kroger operates. (It And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003. Plus, their loyalty program and coupon doubling (they probably don't do that now).

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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. 11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. mortgage originations. More political than commercial.

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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

The city did a plan for the area around 2003. I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1.

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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.