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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Tools like code enforcement systems and land banking that can help neighborhoods thrive must be implemented with racial equity in mind, or else they can just as easily perpetuate a broken status quo. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This paper examines the effects of UAC in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation. Methodology.

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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

In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ". Purposeful neighborhood revitalization. Louis: -- " St.

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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. What a waste.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For years they haven't been reporting data by bus line--there are six. Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership. So they evade real scrutiny.

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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)

Enter the FHFA The FHFA implemented specific reforms in past years to keep the FHLBs from straying even further from their mission and towards profit. Interestingly, most of them can be implemented by the FHFA itself as the System’s regulator. billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.

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