Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 17, 2023
The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) is the nation’s largest land bank, with over 75,000 properties in its inventory as of 2022. In 2003—with the expert guidance of another future Community Progress co-founder, Frank S. Why are there so many land banks in Michigan?
Center for Community Progress
JULY 1, 2022
LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. 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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 19, 2024
Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) The city did a plan for the area around 2003.
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