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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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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

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Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places?

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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

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1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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

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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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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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And Maglev and the Central Business District, which is another inducement for a Height increase, one completely unseen by DC's planning and economic development officials (" DC, Transformational Projects Action Planning, and the Baltimore-Washington Maglev project ," 2021). Social urbanism and equity planning.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

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For what it's worth, over the past ten years, the regional recommendations for transit were incredibly paltry and stunted, in part because the Republican Governor, Larry Hogan, had negative interest in transit, except for maglev. -- " Small update: Transit agenda for Greater Baltimore ," 2021- It appears that's changing.