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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In particular, the organization’s Foreclosure Response Program—launched in 2008 in direct response to the devastating foreclosure crisis—has proven a resilient model for affordable single-family development. ANDP’s work has primarily benefitted low-income families, first-time homebuyers, African Americans, and female heads of household.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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