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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Meehan, 2014). 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). Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust as a Social Invention in Affordable Housing.”

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students , Washington State Department of Transportation -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State Department of Transportation -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan.

2011 52
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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Hence, 'community' is about influence.

2013 52