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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Image: Faggard, 2013. As Faggard concludes his 2013 paper [diagram], “the process of forming online groups capable of creating tension to overwhelm decision makers or government forces through a communication-based social swarm is possible. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. By contrast, the median citywide assessed value of single-family houses built 2007 or later on unsubdivided parcels was $545,000.

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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.

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2013) suggests that social activism in online spaces such as YouTube is not easily defined, but is adapted to suit movement needs—which makes social media a popular and flexible venue for activism but also highlights the challenges for scholars studying such venues. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. Used by more than a thousand primary lenders, this grid is of adequate accuracy while being practical for those lenders to implement.