Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina: NY Times article on the tensions between growth and hurricanes in the Coastal Carolinas: for every home bought out in NC between 1996-2017, more than 10 new ones were built in the state’s floodplains.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Housing : A patient’s housing status - either without housing or inconsistent housing (housing insecure) - ,can impact health outcomes significantly. Google Cloud’s support of the SDOH Challenge is just the latest in a long standing collaboration with the University of California, which dates back to 2017.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Taking the perspectives of tenants on board is increasingly necessary, particularly since the Grenfell disaster in the UK in 2017. Although tenant participation is becoming more common when it comes to planning social housing, the ability for tenants to influence their landlords remains considerably limited.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 5, 2024

According to one study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “the shift to remote work accounts for more than half of overall house price growth over the pandemic.” Conversely, demand for residential real estate has surged, partly fueled by remote work. This is mirrored in local data for North Carolina.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. It's what you call a "priming effect." And you want that to happen, since you're spending billions of dollars on it.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Illinois; Tennessee; Rosslyn + "The Airport Access Factor" ," 2017 Education. International companies like Caterpillar can't rely on a local airport for simplified connections. Same with firms in Winston-Salem. -- " Do tax incentives pay off?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MARCH 10, 2017

In this instance, the ban appears to have been developed by the White House in isolation, with limited input from experts or from the agencies tasked with implementation. Some reports suggest Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly only saw final details shortly before the signing. 1] Siciliano, M.D.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets. Ideally, families would once more be able to call these derelict properties home—but we were unsure exactly how to make that happen.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. And the commercial real estate market is tanking because of work from home, but the CRE market likely isn't top of mind the way housing sales are.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The City of Detroit’s innovative Make it Home program harnesses the power of a traditionally harmful system—the property tax foreclosure process—and uses it to increase affordable homeownership, improve housing conditions, and stabilize neighborhoods. Overview and History of Detroit’s Make it Home Program.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. Prior to that, she represented New Mexico in the United States Congress for 10 years, and served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

When Justin Davis joined the BMV in 2017 as Contact Center Director, the employee attrition rate there was almost 200% per year, while customer satisfaction ratings were sinking. The bureau found that unhappy employees tended to provide poorer service, using negative language or rushing to end calls.

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 5, 2021

It is the winning entry of the “ Arches Challenge Competition ”, launched In 2017 by Meanwhile Space and supported by Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London. Behind the Blue Doors: Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. -- " Austerity urbanism in England: The ‘regressive redistribution’ of local government services and the impact on the poor and marginalised ," Environment and Planning A (2017) Conservation as a legitimate use for public lands.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 19, 2023

In fact, just recently, the White House hosted its global ransomware summit , which brought three dozen nations, the EU, and private businesses together to discuss the threat landscape and this evolving threat vector. Soon after, many organisations educated themselves and adopted appropriate mitigation methods.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020).

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

I have a very distinct memory of Carl Rowe arguing they had created a ‘permanent republican majority,’ only to find there temporary majorities in both Houses of Congress give way. Another example of how Democratic Institutions work is through the election cycle themselves.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] And, as mentioned above, the Biden administration has not even begun to execute on any such exit plan.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

One estimate suggests that more than 5 million homes that were originally owner-occupied transitioned to rental homes between 2006 and 2017. Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. percent were purchased by NCST community partners.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

“We are fighting perception, and you have to be aggressive, or it takes on a life of its own,” says Andrea Zopp, who was CEO of World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private partnership for corporate recruiting, from 2017 to 2020. “It It would be a serious mistake to move major entertainment venues to the suburbs,” Florida says.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 18, 2022

Las Vegas Boulevard, May 25th, 2017. For example, 75% of housing in France doesn't have air conditioning. More for design aesthetics probably, but increasingly these kinds of measures should be taken within parks and place planning, to make places more resilient wrt heat and sun. Photo: Richard Brian, Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Prior to his work with DC, he was one of the founders of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at the White House, which applied insights from the behavioral sciences to improving federal agency operations. .” To learn more, we are joined by the Lab’s founding director, David Yokum.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). Conclusion. A train hall isn't enough to transform New Carrollton, although I should have included it as a suggestion on the list of actions in the original piece.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

It also will move corporate taxation from the 21% established by the 2017 tax cut up to about 28%. (It It was 35% before the 2017 tax cut.). All of this will take place while the House select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection will be holding hearings. This larger, $3.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. One in three people globally is thought to suffer from a neurological disorder at some point.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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