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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Governor Appoints CDT Deputy Director of Communications & Stakeholder Relations

California Department of Technology

Since 2021, Monica has served as Deputy Director of Communications at the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Her first day at CDT will be October 6.

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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

And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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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. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income. 160D-1311(a)(2) is limited in scope to “community development programs and activities,” then what does “community development” mean?

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it.

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The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority outbids Wall Street to buy houses in Cincinnati

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts and retail focused community development corporations. Transit focused community development corporations. Sadly, wrt the Purple Line I first suggested this in 2007. A home recently purchased by The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority. Their focus is on maintaining independent retail.

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