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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). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Meehan, 2014). 2 (2014): 113-133.

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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. Aging cities usually lack the money to take on this issue at the scale it requires. But they need to be way more purposeful about it. Purposeful neighborhood revitalization. Louis: -- " St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While my position is that teams and billionaires shouldn't be subsidized, that isn't the way things work, so I've come to focus my writings on how communities can maximize the benefits they receive from these deals. -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports (..)

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The kinds of initiatives that helped cities revived need to be reassessed and further strengthened and extended and revised for today's circumstances Along these lines, at the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote this piece, " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free (..)

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

. “Cities were more likely to change their local zoning in 2021 compared with 2014 – and to do so more dramatically,” they wrote. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units. Those targets were spread more equitably among different communities, too.

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