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A Lime electric bicycle front wheel with the spokes iced up, Salt Lake City | Snow clearance issues and sustainable mobility

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

By contrast the nonprofit GreenBike program, based around hubs or stations, doesn't have the same problem. And like in the 2019 and earlier posts, inadequate snow removal in commercial districts remains a program. I've seen a bunch of buried scooters and bikes in the wild.

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

Center for Community Progress

Every year, the Center for Community Progress hosts VAD Academy, our virtual boot camp for public, private, nonprofit, and community leaders whose communities are impacted by vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties. Some cities, like Detroit, are working to correct the overvaluation with equity in mind.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020. Note: Several properties in outlying areas have been excluded from the map owing to visual formatting restrictions. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And why in some places, proximity to transit has little value premium, so creating transit oriented development is very difficult, time intensive, and requires subsidy (" From the files: transit planning in Baltimore ," originally written 2010). State Center; Park Heights; etc.)

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