Missing Middle Housing.
OPTICOS DESIGN FOUNDER DANIEL PAROLEK inspired a new movement for housing choice in 2010 when he coined the term “Missing […]
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Articles provided by wck planning and articles by others discuss a wide variety of issues and opportunities facing small cities and towns. Ideas matter and history helps with practical and conceptual ideas and information about cities, city planning and city-building. The Articles gallery of CharacterTowns.org presents papers that discuss issues and opportunities for those thinking and doing city-building.
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The Business Sector Begins to Worry about Affordable Housing.
CharacterTowns.org mined two recent concurrent articles focusing on affordable housing and concerns of the industrial sector. The concurrent Articles are
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Sustaining Affordable Housing and Neighborhoods.
THE PROMISE OF A DECENT, SAFE AND SANITARY HOME. Housing the Nation’s people in a decent, safe and sanitary home
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Sustaining Safe Neighborhoods.
THE RANGE OF SAFETY ISSUES. Small cities and towns have experience employing their police, fire and rescue teams to protect
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The Neighborhood Safe.
NEIGHBORHOOD PRIMACY. The primary mission of every city, as has been mentioned many times by CharacterTowns.org, is to protect people
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Kirkland WA Neighborhood Safety Program.
NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY PROGRAM OVERVIEW. The Kirkland WA City Council authorized the Neighborhood Safety Program (NSP) in June 2014. The purpose
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Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
ABOUT PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local and tribal law
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Where Are the Safest Neighborhoods in Boston? by Raleigh Werner
West Roxbury, Allston/ Brighton and Dorchester top the list for “safest” neighborhoods in Boston. “Safe” is always a murky term
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Wells Fargo to Donate $1 Billion for Affordable Housing
Three unnamed cities are on a shortlist to score a philanthropic windfall from the Wells Fargo Foundation, the scandal-plagued megabank’s
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Microsoft Learns Money Alone Can’t Fix Seattle’s Housing Mess
The company has taken a lead among big tech companies in helping to keep Seattle residents in their homes, but