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via GOOD | New York Turns the Spotlight on North Brooklyn’s Creative Communities
“Love them or hate them, it’s undeniable that the North Brooklyn neighborhoods Williamsburg and Greenpoint have served as a laboratory of creativity for longer than a decade. Urban activists in the trendy enclaves have created models for more collaborative, locally focused economies, mapping out a blueprint for a sustainable approach to urban life. Amplify Brooklyn, an exhibit and event series officially opening tonight, will explore the work and ideas generated in those neighborhoods. Workshops will showcase organizations like Green Map System, which uses mapping to promote sustainable community development, and ioby, a social media and fundraising site for activists that’s debuting a new toolkit for neighborhood problems…
The exhibit is part of a two-year initiative called Amplifying Creative Communities, which investigated Manhattan’ Lower East Side last year before shifting the focus across the East River for this year’s Amplify Brooklyn. Graduate students and faculty affiliated with Parsons’ Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab interviewed leaders from 30 different community organizations about socially innovative solutions to urban problems, from community gardening to alternative transportation….”

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via New York Times | A Search for Subsidized Housing, Simplified
“A NEW interactive database developed by New York University lets renters and buyers track nearly all the privately held subsidized housing in New York City.

The need to take stock of affordable apartments, which were quickly disappearing in the last decade as market-rate real estate boomed, led city officials to select the university’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy to compile the database, called the Subsidized Housing Information Project …
Of the 235,000 affordable rental units in the database, about 171,000 continue to receive some sort of government subsidy and have a rent or income restriction associated with them, she said. The new database will enable city officials and affordable-housing advocates to see which housing subsidies are about to expire, so they can plan ahead and focus on housing that can be saved …

The center’s Institute for Affordable Housing Policy has already used the database to identify 227 properties throughout the city that are at risk of expiring out of affordability programs by the end of 2015.”

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