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No more housing filtration? (at least in big cities)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 per cent in 2016, and to 30.28 per cent more than they did in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, renters’ average bills went up 48.2 Where owners in all areas spent 45.35 per cent in 2021. The average tenant in Canada last year paid 17.6 per cent over that period.

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

.” – Mayor Douglas Shere The most recent government statistics available on areas with low numbers of or access to grocery stores is from 2016, part of the federal Food Environment Atlas. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

2010), the typical network paper sent to JPART is a study of one or a small number of public and nonprofit networks over a short span of time–typically the length of time it took the researcher to conduct the network survey. Carpenter, D.P. Princeton University Press. Isett, K.R., Mergel, I.A., Mischen, P.A., & Rethemeyer, R.K.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. The current edition came out in 2011.). I was thus intrigued by a review of Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016) by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Car sharing works in certain conditions (" Car sharing and integrated sustainable mobility planning ," 2013, " Another example of DC's failures in transportation planning: carsharing ," 2011, " When the one over neighborhood is in the county next door, and housing prices have been in the tank: Mount Rainer, Maryland ," 2016, section on car sharing).

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How the UK’s Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is building rigorous evidence about how to close education achievement gaps: An interview with Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive, EEF – Episode #130

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Launched in 2011 with a founding grant of ÂŁ125 million from the UK Department of Education, today it operates as an independent grant making nonprofit. To do that, it has a unique strategy: increasing the supply of high-quality evidence about what works in order to enable better decisions by teachers and school leaders.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " Back to School #3: College " (2016) I mention a number of elements (slightly edited): -- In most communities, colleges and universities are major property owners, and even developers (" Project Rehab, University City District, Philadelphia: Best Practice Neighborhood Stabilization Program ," " What do universities owe abutting communities?