HUD TA Team Implementation Site Visit and Peer Exchange
July 9, 2013
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Reconnecting America Project Manager Elizabeth Wampler will be participating in the Department of Housing and Urban Development Technical Assistance Implementation Site Visit and Peer Exchange in Seattle on July 9-11. The technical assistance program is part of HUD's Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities grant program.
Urban Issues: Nashville's Symphony Trouble, Stockton Housing Bubble, Housing Discrimination, Seattle Housing & Rail
June 12, 2013
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Nashville's Symphony In Trouble
The Urbanophile
Nashville has been on a roll in recent years, with a rapidly growing population (including a rapidly expanding immigrant base), robust job growth (#1 among large cities in 2012 on a percentage basis), and lots of positive national press.
(Re-)Emerging Economies Action Team Learning from Place Workshop
June 4, 2013
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Program Director Catherine Cox Blair, with our CTOD partner the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Stefanie Shull, will be leading the (Re-)Emerging Economies Action Team Learning from Place Workshop on June 4-5 at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. The (Re-) Emerging Economies Action Team (REEAcT) is a coalition of regions and communities that face slow or declining market sectors, high concentrations of poverty, fragmented governments, and limited capacity and resources. The effort is part of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities funded by HUD, DOT and EPA.
Urban Issues: City Revenue Sources, Pittsburgh Urbanism Politics, Poticha To Head NRDC Program, Penalties For Pedestrian Deaths
May 28, 2013
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Cities Looking for New Revenue Sources
News Tribune
Stagnant revenues are leading Jefferson City officials to look at ways to find new revenue streams, an issue facing many municipalities.
Urban Issues: Corruption & State Capitals, Gen Y Housing Preferences, Growing Suburban Poverty, Value Of City Rankings
May 20, 2013
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Are State Capitals in Big Cities Less Corrupt?
Chicago Magazine, via: @otiswhite
Given that Chicago politics is code for pretty much anything anyone thinks is corrupt or even impolitely…
Urban Issues: City Data Projects, State & Local Outlook Bleak, Income & Transpo Routes, Health Care & Urbanization
May 10, 2013
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Cities Ramp Up Data Projects, Innovation
Governing
Dubuque, Iowa, has a population of just under 60,000, but it's doing something few other cities of its size have ever tried. It's embedding technology in utility meters to collect and analyze water, gas and electricity use
Environment & Econology: Fastest Warming City, Beauty Amid Chicago Industry, Planning Sustainability Focus
May 9, 2013
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Few Trees in Louisville, The Fastest Warming City
Next City
What's the scariest weather event you can think of? A hurricane? Tornado? Storm surge?
Urban Issues: Silicon Valley Housing, San Ysidro Culture Exchange, HUD Partnerships, City Budget Solving
May 6, 2013
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Problem with Silicon Valley, No Housing Boom
Slate Moneybox
The enormous wealth that’s pouring into Silicon Valley ought to be trickling down to at least some extent as a vast array of local service providers gain jobs and income as chefs, waiters, doctors, nurses, yoga instructors, gardeners, interior decorators, taxi drivers, accountants, opthamologists, tailors, and housekeepers to the new money elite.
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Urban Issues: Mel Watt FHFA, SF Ellis Act Maps, San Gabriel Valley Asian Population Growth, Suing Blight
May 3, 2013
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Tech Sets Up Shop in NYC’s DUMBO Neighborhood
USA Today
Aaron Shapiro, CEO of digital agency Huge, remembers what it was like to set up shop in the area known as DUMBO 10 years ago.
Read On Mel Watt Tapped to Lead FHFA National Housing Conference Open House Yesterday, President Obama nominated Representative Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance…
Read On Mel Watt Tapped to Lead FHFA National Housing Conference Open House Yesterday, President Obama nominated Representative Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance…
Urban Issues: HUD Downsizing, Eds and Meds, Turin's Resurgence and Paris' Governance
April 30, 2013
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The Boom and Bust Cycle of Urban Investment
New York Times
FOR the past several years all the ingredients have been in place for an urban crisis. Unemployment has hovered above 15 percent in many of our most distressed cities.
Read On Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
Read On Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
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