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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Meehan, 2014). How are CLTs different from other affordability tools?

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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

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

This last theory I found particularly intriguing – especially given my interest in mapping as a tool for strategy development. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean? References.

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4 Tips for Leveraging Data in Your Grant Report

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough. Sheri’s foray into entrepreneurship began with Measurement Resources Company in 2010.

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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)

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. 27 This development is perhaps the most damning evidence as to how political the FHLBanks are. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

2008 59
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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

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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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). It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional. Banfield, E.C.

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