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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, Andrew Jakabovics and David Sanchez discuss how a nonprofit “first look” program impacted outcomes for real estate owned (REO) properties. The platform prioritizes both homeownership outcomes, based on a view that an owner-occupant disposition best stabilizes a neighborhood, and sale to local nonprofit community partners.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

Nicholson, of The Politics of Theory in the Practice of Critical Librarianship (2018), and of Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners from ACRL Press. Nicole has been adjunct faculty with the UArizona iSchool since 2015, and as of 2021 is working toward a PhD in the same program.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). Liverpool Echo photo. They zeroed in on one element above all else: rider safety. Other options.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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Defining Data Equity

GovLoop

MCE is designed to help users identify underserved communities and relies on four main datasets: Select demographic and socioeconomic statistics from the 2015-19 American Community Survey (ACS), which helps determine how $675 billion in federal and state funds get distributed each year.

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