Blogosphere: District Revitalization and ROI
August 18, 2011|Urbanophile
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One of the things that bugs me about local economic development is that elected and appointed officials don't seem to understand it much. Certain types of government funding add value and spur subsequent independent private investment and other types of funding do not. Ideally, each dollar you spend generates significantly more in private investment... Read On
Blogosphere: Transportation Costs Too Much of Income
August 18, 2011|Radials Blog
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A colleague of mine -who coincidentally was also one of my favorite transportation policy professors- has an especially esoteric collection of office memorabilia. Seeing the odd model train or toy subway car wasn't out of the ordinary in an office dedicated solely to transportation planning and consulting... Read On
Research: Spatial Boundaries in Gentrifying N'hood
August 18, 2011|City and Community Journal
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This article examines the role of animals in the processes of social inclusion and exclusion in a gentrifying neighborhood. Residents who move into mixed-income, inner-city neighborhoods generally express a taste for diversity while simultaneously attempting to distance themselves from "undesirables... Read On
Research: Early Gentrifiers on Lower East Side
August 18, 2011|City and Community Journal
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Focusing on the consequences of social and cultural displacement from commercial gentrification, this article examines the perspective of "early gentrifiers" decades after they moved into the neighborhood... Read On
Research: Residential Preferences for Redev
August 18, 2011|City and Community Journal
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While scholars argue that redevelopment and gentrification result in large part from the unique preferences of middle-class residents moving to neighborhoods after decades of flight, almost all of this evidence is extrapolated from the behavior of residents already living in redeveloped neighborhoods... Read On
Tucson: Housing Trust Gets People In Homes
August 15, 2011|Arizona Star (via the HUDdle)
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In a housing market that's crashed and burned, the Pima County Community Land Trust is rebuilding. The trust rehabs foreclosed homes to highly energy-efficient standards, and then sells them to lower-income buyers with good credit who qualify, Maggie Amado-Tellez, its director, said... Read On
HUD Schedules Two Webinars To Help Grant Applicants
August 10, 2011
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) recently issued two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) for their FY 2011 Community Challenge Grants Program ($95 million in grants available) and FY 2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program ($28 million available). In order to help applicants, a pair of webinars have been scheduled:
Blogosphere: Wrong Time to Cut Housing Programs
August 10, 2011|NHC Open House
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With the debt ceiling debate behind us, at least temporarily, some economists have expressed concern that the spending cuts required in the deal may stall or reverse the nation's already weak economic recovery... Read On
Des Moines: Downtown Abatement is Essential
August 9, 2011|Des Moines Register
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Developers with projects in Des Moines' downtown area are lobbying city officials to restore a tax incentive that expired at the start of 2011. Residential projects in downtown received a 10-year abatement. ... Read On
Blogosphere: Making the Most of Stabilization
August 5, 2011|NHC's Open House
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With weak revenue leading to spending cuts nationally, communities with large numbers of foreclosures are in a difficult position of needing to take action to prevent ripple effects of neighborhood decline but also needing to watch every penny in the process... Read On
