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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. Although the rate of foreclosure in Cuyahoga County had declined as of 2020, much remedial work remains unfinished.

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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Unfortunately, US economic development planning is more about "trickle down" rather than focused approaches to addressing low income pockets within otherwise successful areas.

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How will low-code tech shape the future?

Open Access Government - Technology News

According to a BCS State of the Nation Report, job vacancies in the UK tech sector in the 2021 third quarter were up by 191% from the same period in 2020. Latest ONS figures show that the UK’s output per hour growth between 2009 – 2019 was the second lowest of the G7 countries. This is where low-code tech comes in.

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Policy Minute: Exclusionary Zoning

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

New York State Senator Rachel May introduced New York Senate Bill 7635 that would provide affordable housing developments a streamlined land use approval process in exclusionary jurisdictions. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 times from 1990 to 2018.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. Interestingly, years ago I wrote about the DC Zoning Commission allowing developers to opt out of providing recreation space. Not mixed commercial use.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region ," 2009 And some of that seems to be happening, at least with the local commuter line (" Brightline, Orlando and Orange County collaborate on potential convention center rail route ," Orlando Business Journal ).