Remove Helping Homeless Through Business Improvement Districts
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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

An activist arrives at the entrance of Parker Elementary School in Oakland, where parents and community organizers occupied the building after it was closed by the school district. But school districts don't invest in this, don't create assistance programs for schools. Melina Mara/The Washington Post) 3. but it fell off.

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A recent upload in my photo feed was from last fall, and showed a public art campaign posted on a trash can in Times Square, where the public spaces are managed by the Times Square Alliance business improvement district. It also provides a way to reach back to the reporter, still anonymously, through a chat function.