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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

Mary has been employed with New Kensington CDC since July 10, 2017. Prior to her employment at NKCDC, Mary led a team of Housing Counselors as their supervisor at lntercultural Family Services from 2008 until 2017. It is Mary's mission to ensure fair and equal housing access to all members of every community.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The discussion of Equinox and Brooklyn Army Terminal also covers community building and camaraderie amongst the artists, sharing equipment and help depending on needs, organizing events, etc. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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Episode 9: Find CRA and First Western Trust-Partnering for Impact

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 billion was redirected for tax incentives, according to the academic research that appeared in Community Development. Abatements have long been controversial, pitting communities against one another in beggar-thy-neighbor contests. That city is hardly an anomaly.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

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But it is something that a community development corporation tasked to serve the arts and culture community can do. Obviously, that's not something you can expect an individual artist to be able to do.