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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). One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011).

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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. “You have to have clear targets and you have to have a strategy.”

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A Message from President and CEO Akilah Watkins

Center for Community Progress

Over these last five years leading Community Progress, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most dedicated and mission-driven staff in my entire career. Since its founding in 2010, the organization has grown so much, but it has retained many of the people who were there at its beginnings.

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Parking fees/admissions fees for arenas, stadiums, concert facilities: Fee proposal for Live Nation Pittsburgh opposed by developer

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Marimba Milliones is president and CEO of the Hill Community Development Corporation. One of the projects was an arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins, called the Civic Arena , which opened in 1967 and was torn down in 2010. Wikipedia photo.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. They can break the cycle of disinvestment and decline and pave the way to more equitable, inclusive, and resilient communities.

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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. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Aging cities usually lack the money to take on this issue at the scale it requires.

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How the Census Undercounts Will Impact CED Work

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

This group was undercounted by almost 5 percent, three times greater than in the 2010 Census. These latter two undercounts are about the same percentages as in 2010. The 2020 percent undercounted for Blacks was a little over 3 percent, and the percent undercount of Native Americans living on reservations was about 5.5

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