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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Positive impacts of land banks in Michigan All across the country, land banks have documented positive benefits for the communities they serve. Between 2009-18, the Calhoun and Kalamazoo County land banks created at least 286 full time jobs in construction, lawn care, and property maintenance. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014).

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. Also see " The analysis of transit-oriented development (TOD) in Washington, 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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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