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WEBReckoning With Root Shock: How Understanding Urban Renewal Prepares Us for This Moment. October 23, 2024 – October 23, 2024 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET. In honor of its 20th anniversary, this webinar will revisit Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock to reckon with the past and reimagine how to support communities facing displacement today.
Meet the Bill To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Single-Family …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · While the overall ownership of single-family homes by private equity remains relatively small, a 2022 report by MetLife estimated that by 2030, 7.6 million single-family rental homes in the United States—more than 40 percent—could be owned by corporate investors. According to a November report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) the estimate of 1.6 million housing units ...
Five Ways Local Governments Can Spur Development of …
WEBJun 30, 2020 · Here are their five recommendations for creative ways to finance affordable housing. 1. Establish a housing finance agency. A housing finance agency (HFA) is a government entity designed to promote affordable housing by issuing tax-exempt bonds and using the proceeds from the sales to offer low-cost mortgages to …
Urbanist News - Top Stories and In-Depth Features from Next City
WEBUrbanist News. Next City goes beyond pithy headlines and sound bites, publishing original, in-depth features on urbanist news issues critical to our shared future. Our daily stories and in-depth feature articles, written by journalists from around the globe, span a wide range of topics, from transportation and infrastructure, to affordable ...
Who Will Pay America’s $1.5 Billion Recycling Bill? - Next City
WEBFeb 9, 2015 · That $300,000 catalyst is a significant chunk of financing — last fiscal year, the city’s working budget for recycling was $1.1 million. The Recycling Partnership hopes that its investment will set off an even greater reaction around the region. The theory, essentially, is that cities respond to peer pressure.
History of Gentrification in America: A Timeline | Next City
WEB1964. The term “gentrification” is coined by Ruth Glass. “One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class – upper and lower …. Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social ...
Gentrification - Next City
WEBThe history of gentrification in America starts in the 1960s, when the term was coined. Over the next five and a half decades, communities have wielded varying tools and strategies in response to gentrification’s challenges. We think it’s worth a fresh look at the ideas that animate this conversation.
Why the ‘Greening’ of Vacant Land Is a Smart Long-Term ... - Next …
WEBJul 2, 2018 · Although the cost of greening or maintaining any individual lot is modest, the vast number of vacant lots in legacy cities means that the total cost can easily become substantial. The Cuyahoga County Land Bank spent $2.23 million from 2011 to 2015 simply to clean and mow the vacant lots it created through demolition.
In Flushing, Anti-Displacement Activists Fight An Uphill Battle
WEBDec 21, 2022 · It’s a link, he says, between the displacement Flushing faced in 1952 and what locals are struggling against today. Downtown Flushing residents today are often renters, people of color, immigrants or people with limited English, Jung notes. From 2009 to 2019, Flushing saw the highest number of condos built in New York outside Williamsburg.
Why Nashville Is Still America’s Music City - Next City
WEBDec 1, 2014 · No one makes money in music anymore. In a time when the song of the summer (hello “All About That Bass”) can be yours on repeat for 99 cents and an entire album saved to your record cabinet in the cloud for just a few bucks more, the chorus is as familiar as the latest Beyonce tune in most of the United States. But in Nashville, a different trend has taken shape, one that has the city and ...