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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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Divided by Design? Urban Renewal’s Long-term Impact on Poverty and Income by Race

The Lowe Down

In 2021, Lavoice showed that urban renewal resulted in a decreased share of black residents in redeveloped neighborhoods. I test this idea using Collins and Shester’s methodology to analyze economic outcomes from three decades (1990, 2000, 2010) disaggregated by race (Black or White). All results were significant at a 95% level.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51 AWS is committed to helping cities across the ASEAN enable more resilient, liveable, and sustainable smart cities. When it first launched, 1.9 million people accessed the system.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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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

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. They remade it into a full park circle. 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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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. The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1%

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