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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

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CAST currently supports another Tenderloin fixture, Luggage Store Gallery, through the same model, and is developing agreements with 12 more arts nonprofits in the Bay Area, eight of which are in San Francisco’s downtown core. Not all arts nonprofits have the funding for such a hefty purchase, and the model favors those with deep pockets.

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

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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 more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 per cent in 2021. The average tenant in Canada last year paid 17.6 The average homeowner’s bills increased by 9.5

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

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The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5

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

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.” – 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. By 2016, it had lost that store. Cooperatives and nonprofit ventures are another.

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

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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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Community building versus economic development

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The Bok Building served as a model, the former South Philadelphia high school now home to a bounty of small businesses, nonprofits, and artists, attracting people from around the city to the spectacular views of its rooftop bar. Instead, people wanted to open its walls so pedestrians could more easily move between Chinatown and Market East.

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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

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| Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.