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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.

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Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Historically, the development of new housing in the city has been unevenly spread across neighborhoods, with the lowest-density community districts adding housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. Suburban legislators strongly opposed Hochul’s statewide plan last year.

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Five Principles for a New 421-a Property Tax Exemption

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Between 2010 and 2020, 68 percent of new multifamily buildings used various forms of a 421-a exemption , accounting for 116,000 of the 171,000 housing units completed in multifamily buildings that decade. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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School Breakfast Program Expansion Grant for U.S. Territories

iGrantWriters

Territories that administer the School Breakfast Program or provide any other school breakfast to students and have been designated by the Governor or other appropriate executive or legislative authority of the State and approved by USDA to administer such program. In this instance, the following U.S. Territories.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For awhile GWU did a program like the Community Planning Lab, mostly for ANC commissioners, but I didn't think it reached very far. -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," 2010 DC and non-citizens. I think that's reasonable.