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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Alzheimer’s disease research portal enables data sharing and scientific discovery at scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2011, PNGC Director Dr. Gerard Schellenberg met with Dr. Wang and his research team to begin exploring cloud technology for large-scale genomic computations. The data housed in NIAGADS represents some of these major advances and findings in the field. terabytes (TB).

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A behind-the-scenes look at the 2022 Sammies gala

Partnership for Public Service

Communications and Events Manager Maggie Moore said she was grateful for the opportunity to coordinate and lead an event that brought together White House leaders, Cabinet secretaries, corporate CEOs and top civil servants to honor federal employees who make a difference. Photos in blog post credit: Parker Schaffel.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

My colleague Kara Millonzi discusses that requirement in much more detail in this blog post. 594, 607 (2011). 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. 2(2) and Art. VII, Sect. See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that sometime in the next few months, I plan to write a dedicated blog entry on this topic.) This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., but it fell off.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Later, Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas, R-Midland, determined Brown’s comments “violated the decorum of the House”, said Ari Adler, spokesman for the Republican majority. Pete Lund, (House Speaker) Jase Bolger, (Rep.) Image: Washington Post. Following the *audacity* that Rep. Instead, scholars writing about both the U.S.