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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

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This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E. It will provide educators with innovative case studies for teaching digital storytelling to inspire learners as confident and creative producers of digital information. Jacobson for Rowman & Littlefield.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arlington County requires transportation information kiosks for multiunit and public buildings, like libraries. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. Below: Roy Lichtenstein did do a painting of VW microbuses.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Provide integrated train arrival information screens at Metrorail, Light Rail, and VRE/MARC stations (Item 7 in the PL list).

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I know that Miami is served by bus, a heavy rail system that was burdened by a poor system design that didn't focus on stoking ridership, an intra-district downtown transit service called Metromover (" Making the case for intra-city vs. inter-city transit planning ," 2011, " Brief follow up to intra-district transit proposal for Tysons: Toyama City (..)

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

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594, 607 (2011). 122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. State , 210 N.C. State , 368 N.C.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. economy " Broadway News )./ Nationwide, attendees spent an average of $38.46