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SOURCE: HUDUser
PD&R’s Best Practices Series highlights sustainable housing and community development projects and innovations from across the country. The most recent report details the revitalization of Old North St Louis, Missouri, one of St. Louis’s historic ...
SOURCE: National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
In order to learn more about the effects of the foreclosure crisis on children and schools, the National Neighborhood Indicator Partership gathered data from Baltimore, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Family stress, moves from home to home, and changing schools all affect children ...
SOURCE: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published a bulletin to guide banks on their obligations as owners of foreclosed properties, as well as the risks related to them. The guidance highlights legal, safety and soundness, and community impact considerations, focusing primarily ...
SOURCE: www.GNOCDC.org
Blight is a problem in virtually every neighborhood in New Orleans. To attract population to sustainably reduce blight, New Orleans needs to increase jobs as well as offer appealing and affordable housing options — along with better schools and improved public safety. GNOCDC recently ...
SOURCE: NeighborWorks America
NEW DATE: January 11, 2012
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As developers struggle to find buyers for rehabbed affordable homes, many are looking to a lease-purchase model to expand the pool of potential ...
SOURCE: Center for Housing Policy, posted 10/13/11
Building in housing affordability near transit stations and town centers helps to ensure that families at all income levels benefit from the opportunities afforded by location-efficient development. This HousingPolicy.org online policy guide features tools that states and localities can use to ...
SOURCE: The Atlantic Cities, 11/8/11
An article in The Atlantic Cities notes that rehabilitating old buildings is more efficient than building new ones — and creates more jobs. Rehabbing is more labor intensive than constructing a new home. New data from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of ...
SOURCE: SFGate.com
City officials in Oakland who have been placing liens on blighted properties will need to revamp their strategy for dealing with these after a civil grand jury criticized the city for its unfair code-enforcement strategies. In the past, the city placed tens of thousands of dollars in liens on ...
SOURCE: FastCoDesign.com
Automobile-centered development may be a thing of the past, as more public places become centered on people. People are becoming more mobile and less tied to one place and want to live in socially focused places with mixed-use development. As the desire for sustainability and green development ...
SOURCE: National Housing Conference, Center for Housing Policy
Resources are available on the Solutions for Sustainable Communities website for all learning conferences that took place in 2011. Users can easily find guest speakers’ presentations and handouts by clicking on the training session they were in plus find videos, photos, news ...
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