The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission. See [link]. [21]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. Philadelphia 76ers ," 2023 ). They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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