Category: National Best Practices

Combatting Blight Through Pre-Permitted Housing Plans

A recent feature in Strong Towns discusses how Kalamazoo is utilizing Pre-Permitted Housing Plans to address blight. Following an innovative...

February 16, 2024

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“Neighborhood Law Program” – City of Vallejo, CA

In an Op-ED for PublicCEO, Ryan Griffith, Attorney & Receiver at the Bay Area Receivership Group discusses his experience creating...

January 26, 2023

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Community Engagement – “Neighborhood Academy”

The Jackson MS (recent recipient of 1 of 8 $100,000 “Love your Block” grant) Director of Planning and Development seeks...

October 29, 2021

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Productive Use Strategies

Non-Profit Partnerships “One strategy in particular is making a resurgence: the reuse of uninhabited and abandoned properties for low-income affordable...

January 29, 2020

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Looking for the Loophole

A recent article in the Jackson Sun discusses what appears to be efforts by commercial property owners to circumvent a...

October 18, 2019

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Still a Valid Solution

Plywood was a pet peeve of my late father-in-law, Robert Klein. This “temporary” solution often became permanent resulting in the...

September 11, 2019

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