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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. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts. Additionally, other recommendations were made to update aspects of how the FHLBanks operate to reflect the current environment rather than what existed many decades ago.

2008 59
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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

In 2008, the organization stepped out on faith, clipped their wings, and began soaring independently. The main stage season operates from September-June utilizing the summer months to focus on training and developing serious pre-professional young artists.

2006 52
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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. The agency will begin increasing service after 4 p.m. to accommodate crowds.

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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

In 2008, the organization stepped out on faith, clipped their wings, and began soaring independently. The main stage season operates from September-June utilizing the summer months to focus on training and developing serious pre-professional young artists.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Local government support is crucial to successful CLTs, and strategies vary between municipalities (Davis and Jacobus 2008). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008. Working Paper, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy , 2008. How do local governments in these states support CLTs ? Davis, John E., Davis, John E.

2010 91