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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. 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).

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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. Aging cities usually lack the money to take on this issue at the scale it requires. But they need to be way more purposeful about it.

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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

Civic Engagement & Democracy at the foundation = citizen at the center I also used that model when creating the Western Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plan back in 2010 (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method "). The Design Method The updated list.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

in 2021 is $124,400 (average of single and double-wide, not including land). Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state. According to this month’s Census Bureau data , the average cost for a new manufactured house in the southern U.S.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent of New York renters paid more than 30 percent of their income toward housing expenses—the threshold of being cost-burdened—in 2021. A lack of community trust often has the spillover effect of politicizing housing development and making long term planning difficult, panelists said.

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