Center For Transit-Oriented Development Releases Updated MITOD.org
September 12, 2010
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) today released an updated version of the Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Action Guide website.
Press Release: Center For Transit-Oriented Development Releases Updated MITOD.org
September 12, 2010
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) released an updated version of the Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Action Guide website. The online MITOD Action Guide at MITOD.org is designed to help local jurisdictions, planners and other stakeholders develop strategies to encourage mixed-income transit-oriented development (TOD) around planned transit stations.
Connecting Low-Wage Workers With Job Opportunities
September 11, 2010|By Yingling Fan
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[This is another in our series of expert blogs on TOD highlighting work and research that experts are doing in the field. The author, Yingling Fan, is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute.]
Public transportation plays an important role in addressing poverty, unemployment and equal-opportunity goals. Often, entry-level jobs are far from affordable housing. Moreover, low-income workers are often carless, or struggle with high gas prices. These factors make transit particularly important to working class people.
The Hiawatha light rail line opened in 2004 as the first link in the Twin Cities’ envisioned transitway system—a system that provides premium transit services including light rail, commuter rail and bus rapid transit. The transitways are expected to improve mobility and accessibility through reliable and rapid service, yet many question who benefits from them.
Over much of…
California: Redev Funds Tool or Slush Fund?
September 9, 2010
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California's dismal economy and deficit-ridden state and local budgets created a yeasty political climate this year for efforts to undermine state redevelopment laws and thus gain access to multibillion-dollar pots of money...
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Blogosphere: Palo Alto to Shift Housing Strategy
September 9, 2010|Palo Alto Online
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Palo Alto, a city with a reputation for affluence and astronomical property values, is banking on small apartments scattered near rail stations and bus corridors to meet its daunting "fair share" requirement for affordable housing...
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Blogosphere: Google Getting into Real Estate
September 7, 2010
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Companies get nervous when Google wants to enter their turf. And with it's arms in so many areas, there are few places that Google has yet to get involved in. What is Google's latest venture? Yep, real estate...
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National: Donovan - Early to Declare Housing Victory
September 7, 2010
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Home sales, showing new signs of life two years after the credit crunch drove down home prices, must gain more ground before policy makers can "declare victory," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said. ..
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Question: Successful Low Inc Neighborhood Look Like?
September 3, 2010
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It's Labor Day weekend in the United States, and I'll be taking it off, returning next week. In the meantime, I'll leave this open thread for your discussions on what successful low income and working class neighborhoods would look like in our cities....
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Blogosphere: A Neighborhood in Transition
September 3, 2010
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Tuesday's Washington Post featured an exceptionally well-written, extended article by reporter Dan Zak about a day in DC's Trinidad neighborhood. Trinidad is a long-disinvested part of the city's northeastern quadrant, and in many ways it is ripe for recovery. In fact, transition is already becoming visible, so that the community provides a vivid portrait of renewal's components, hopes and fears....
National: The Case Against Home Ownership
September 3, 2010
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Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was an axiomatic good. Our political leaders hammered home the point. Franklin Roosevelt held that a country of homeowners was "unconquerable."..
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