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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " 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 "). Most economic development planners don't know the difference. Economic Development.

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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

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005).

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. He is also concurrently the senior advisor of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

It matters for economic development. April 16, 2007 was the day of my community’s worst crisis, its worst collective trauma, ever. Resilience will come not from physical engineering—instead, it will come from bottom up responses built on local social networks. 363) Social capital matters.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

About the Michigan Association of Land Banks : Founded in 2007, the Michigan Association of Land Banks (MALB) works to ensure that the state’s 46 local land banks have the policies, support, and capacity they need to revitalize vacant properties and support the strengthening of Michigan communities. Greg VanWoerkom (R-91).

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

A study of the Great Recession’s impact in the United States found that “in 2007, the birth rate was 69.1 Part of this research could be an analysis of the impact of GDP shocks on fertility rates using samples separated by the economic development of countries. births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0

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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. However, activities that satisfy the North Carolina Constitution’s “public purpose” requirement are not exclusive emoluments. See Blinson v.