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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). Meehan, 2014). This post reviews the national research on the benefits of and cautions for those interested in CLTs.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Purposeful neighborhood revitalization. Louis: -- " St. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations " -- " St.

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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anyway, Greater Greater Washington has an article on the Circulator (" The DC Circulator's electrification dilemma "), saying that the city shouldn't cut back services in order to pay for electric buses, that reducing bus service is a different way of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

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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)

The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” I note that GGW just wrote about this this week. Hamburg's transport association is the model.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014).

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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). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Socialist (25 November 2010), p. Banfield, E.C. Barrios, R.E.

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