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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In response, ANDP’s board of directors unanimously voted to redirect all organization programming (housing development, lending, and advocacy) toward combating metro Atlanta’s devastating tide of foreclosures.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up?

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. presidential election. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. presidential election. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People

Poverty & Policy

The Trump budget would cut WIOA funding by 43%, as compared to 2015 funding, the Center for American Progress reports. How then they may vote, as it doesn’t say, but needn’t. Reporters, as you know, are always looking for the personal lead-in or thread.