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Collective Insights on Collective Impacts
AUTHOR: Collective Impact Forum
YEAR: 2014
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This diverse collection of essays delves into public policy, evaluation, sources of power, and community engagement.
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A Realistic Assessment of Housing Finance Reform
AUTHOR: Laurie S. Goodman, Urban Institute
YEAR: 2014
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This report explores current housing reform proposals, and specifically the roles government and private capital would play in the housing finance
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Housing for America's Older Adults
AUTHOR: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
YEAR: 2014
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This report illustrates the need for housing among a growing older American adult population
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Connecting Youth and Strengthening Communities
AUTHOR: Opportunity Nation
YEAR: 2014
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This report links civic engagement and volunteerism to positive outcomes for at-risk and low income youth and the economic health of states.
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Protected Bicycle Lanes in NYC
AUTHOR: Polly Trottenberg, New York City Department of…
YEAR: 2014
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This report outlines the outcomes of building protected bicycle lanes in New York City including a decrease in cyclist and pedestrian injuries, red
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The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty, 2000 to 2008-2012
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Kneebone, The Brookings Institution
YEAR: 2014
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This report reveals the extent to which concentrated disadvantage has grown since 2000 in the 100 largest U.S.
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KIDS COUNT Data Book
AUTHOR: Annie E. Casey Foundation
YEAR: 2014
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This report covers the overall trends in the well-being of children in the United States.
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Increasing Economic Opportunities in Distressed Urban Communities with EB-5
AUTHOR: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
YEAR: 2014
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This report offers recommendations for how the EB-5 program, an underutilized program to attract foreign capital to create local jobs, can be lever
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Spatial Analysis of Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grant Applicants and Neighborhoods
AUTHOR: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
YEAR: 2014
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This report examines the outcome of the Choice Neighborhoods program after three years, an initiative to revitalize high-poverty neighborhoods into
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The Affordable Housing Crisis in Massachusetts: Where do the Gubernatorial Candidates Stand?
AUTHOR: Citizens' Housing and Planning Association…
YEAR: 2014
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Massachusetts faces an affordable housing crisis, and there are two major problems – inadequate supply and affordability – that restrict housing ch
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The Measure of America: American Human Development Report
AUTHOR: Kristen Lewis, Sarah Burd-Sharps
YEAR: 2014
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Measure of America’s mission is to highlight and make sense of data points like these and use them to tell the story of how American people—not jus
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MA Income Report
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Data report of 1-8 person household incomes in each of the Commonwealth's counties.
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State of Our Nations Housing
AUTHOR: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University…
YEAR: 2014
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With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But
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Rural America's Rental Housing Crisis
AUTHOR: National Rural Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2014
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The purpose of this report is to analyze federal strategies to preserve affordable, rural rentalhousing.
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Inclusionary Upzoning: Tying Growth to Affordability
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2014
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This paper profiles six localities that have adopted inclusionary housing policies tied to upzoning, referred to here as “inclusionary upzoning.”
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Framing Home
AUTHOR: Center for Community Change
YEAR: 2014
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What we know from a decade of public opinion research.
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Transformative Justice: A Curriculum Guide
AUTHOR: Project NIA
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
Our goal is to raise public awareness about transformative justice and to think critically about our practice of mass incarceration.
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Unlocking MAP-21's Potential to Fund Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
AUTHOR: Mariia Zimmerman, MZ Strategies for Enterprise…
YEAR: 2013
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This report focuses on the potential role of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in supporting equitable TOD through the use of federal tran
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Filling in the Financing Gap for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
AUTHOR: Melinda Pollack, Brian Prater, Enterprise Community…
YEAR: 2013
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Enterprise Community Partners, Living Cities, and the Low Income Investment Fund partnered to learn how to make TOD projects that contribute to equ
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Serving the Underserved
AUTHOR: Banker & Tradesman
YEAR: 2013
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It’s a startling statistic: nearly 30 percent of households nationwide are unbanked or underbanked, according to a recent FDIC study.
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Reinventing Transit
AUTHOR: Gateway Cities Innovation Institute
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
A Blueprint for Investing in Regional Transportation Authorities for Strong Gateway City Economies.
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Orange Line Opportunity Corridor Report
AUTHOR: Metropolitan Area Planning Council
YEAR: 2013
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This report provides a baseline understanding of the demographic, economic, transportation, and land use characteristics of the corridor; a schedul
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Transportation and Livable Communities: A Policy Briefing for the Next Mayor of Boston
AUTHOR: Various
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
This Briefing Book has been prepared by a group of non-profit organizations, planners and advocates who have been working, separately and together,
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The Fix We're in For: The State of Our Nation's Bridges
AUTHOR: Transportation for America
YEAR: 2013
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This report is derived from the National Bridge Inventory, a compliation of state-collected data, which is reported to and then published by the Fe
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