2016 Archives

September 28, 2016

8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Pre-Conference Half-Day Service Projects
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
Registration
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Exhibitor Area Open
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Welcome & Opening Plenary - Seeing Things Differently: A Conversation with Young Baltimore Leaders
Moderator: Rebecca Yenawine, New Lens; Speakers: Daniel Brogden, New Lens; Taylor Evans, New Lens; Evelia Miller, New Lens
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
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Tackling Property Tax Lien Sales: Forming a Broad Coalition to Stabilize Communities and Preserve Homeownership
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Youth as a Catalyst for Broader and Deeper Community Engagement
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Identifying, Analyzing, and Prioritizing At-Risk Properties through Silo-Busting Data Analytics
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The Private Sector Perspective on Working in Transitional Markets
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Takin’ [Lawyers] to the Streets: Community-Based Approaches to Nuisance Abatement
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Breaking it Down: Demystifying Deconstruction
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Helping or Hindering Stabilization? Auctions of Non-Performing Loans
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Training Seminars
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Encouraging Responsible Landlords: The Role of Rental Housing Regulation
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Land Banking 101: Everything You Want to Learn About Land Banking
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Mobile Workshops
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Farms and Forests: At Home in the City
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Maker Magnets: Transforming Industrial Vacancy to Support the Growing Maker Economy
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Turning Around Sandtown: How Nonprofits and Residents are Resurrecting a Neighborhood
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Vacant Lots, Placemaking, Community Building, and Youth Engagement— Transforming an Abandoned Industrial Site
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome Reception

September 29, 2016

7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Registration
7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Exhibitor Area Open
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast Keynote - Our Future Depends on It: A Vision for the Revitalization of American Cities
The Honorable Dan Kildee, US House of Representatives, (MI-05)
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Break
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Breakout Sessions
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Neighborhood Revitalization Impact of Scattered Site Rental Housing
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Hit the Ground Running: Mobilizing Actionable Vacant Land Toolkits
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Making Room for Creativity: Building Community and Housing the Arts in Vacant Properties
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Fueling Change through Proactive, Neighborhood-Driven Code Enforcement
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Building Just Communities: Capacity Building Tools to Foster Equitable Development
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Data Alone Doesn’t Change Anything: Stories from Three Cities Working with Data to Eliminate Blight
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
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Creating State Policy Change to Support Blight-Fighting Innovation
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Go-Go Micro: Targeted Strategies that Have a Big Impact in Highly Distressed Neighborhoods
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The Accidental Landlord: Managing Occupied Tax-Foreclosed Properties and Creating Homeownership Opportunities
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Lots of Opportunity: Incorporating a Reentry Initiative into the Philadelphia LandCare Program
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Missed Opportunity: How the Sale of Tax Liens Contributes to Neighborhood Decline
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Rebuilding Homeownership: Innovation in Financially Underserved Communities
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Training Seminars
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Encouraging Responsible Landlords: The Role of Rental Housing Regulation
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Land Banking 101: Everything You Want to Learn About Land Banking
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Mobile Workshops
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Green Tracks: Using a Rail Corridor as a Guide for Greening and Revitalization
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Community-Led Code Enforcement: Mobilizing Neighborhoods to Utilize Cutting-Edge Legal Tools to Transform Vacant Properties
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Turning Around Sandtown: How Nonprofits and Residents are Resurrecting a Neighborhood
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Planning, Strategizing, and Implementing Among Anchor Institutions and Stakeholders in Central Baltimore
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch on Your Own
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
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Image and Impact: The Role of Neighborhood Marketing in Community Stabilization
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Brick, Mortar, and More: Replicable Approaches to Rehab and Preservation for Neighborhood Transformations
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Growing, Green, and Equitable: Practices and Policies to Support Community Gardening and Urban Agriculture
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Engaging Community Partners in Reclaiming Vacant Properties to Support Measurable Public Health and Safety Improvements
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EB-5: An Innovative Financing Tool to Spur Foreign Direct Investment in Economically Distressed Communities
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Reliable, Recurring Funding for Land Banks: Successes to Date and Future Possibilities
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Snack Break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Plenary Session - Rising to the Challenge: The Mayors’ Exchange on Fostering Equitable Communities
Moderator: Erika Poethig, Urban Institute; Speakers: The Honorable Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The Honorable Jamie Mayo, Mayor of Monroe, Louisiana; The Honorable Lester E. Taylor, III, Mayor of East Orange, New Jersey; The Honorable Karen Weaver, Mayor of Flint, Michigan
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Training Seminars
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Market-Informed Decision-Making for Strategic Code Enforcement Success
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Boosting the Odds of Success: Matching Neighborhood Conditions to Problem Property Strategies
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Mobile Workshops
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Community-Led Code Enforcement: Mobilizing Neighborhoods to Utilize Cutting-Edge Legal Tools to Transform Vacant Properties
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Maker Magnets: Transforming Industrial Vacancy to Support the Growing Maker Economy
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Green Tracks: Using a Rail Corridor as a Guide for Greening and Revitalization
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Vacants to Value: A Comprehensive Approach to Blight Elimination

September 30, 2016

7:30 am - 10:15 am
Registration
7:30 am - 12:15 pm
Exhibitor Area Open
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Training Seminars
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Market-Informed Decision-Making for Strategic Code Enforcement Success
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Boosting the Odds of Success: Matching Neighborhood Conditions to Problem Property Strategies
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Mobile Workshops
*
Farms and Forests: At Home in the City
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Vacants to Value: A Comprehensive Approach to Blight Elimination
*
Vacant Lots, Placemaking, Community Building, and Youth Engagement— Transforming an Abandoned Industrial Site
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Planning, Strategizing, and Implementing Among Anchor Institutions and Stakeholders in Central Baltimore
8:45 am - 10:15 am
Breakout Sessions
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New Orleans’ Past, Present, and Future: Building a Shared Community Narrative through Historic Preservation
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Planning for Soft-Market Cities: Lessons from Erie and Danville
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Beyond Property Surveys: Using Point-In-Time Surveys for Action and Research
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Community Investment in Community Change: Philanthropic, Faith-based, and Other Partnerships to Support Revitalization
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Moving to Opportunity, and Neighborhood Revitalization: Synergies and Tensions
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Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Natural Partners?
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Breakout Sessions
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Communities as Change Agents: Taking an Assets-Based Approach to Vacant Properties through Social Innovations
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Adapting Land Banks to Address Brownfields and Economic Development
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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: More Than Just Locks and Lights
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Experimental Fields: Water Quality, Vacant Land, and Community Revitalization
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Knocking it Down, With Care: Strategies to Reduce Lead Hazards in Abandoned Property Demolitions
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Doing a Lot with Little: Community-Based Stabilization Efforts
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Closing Plenary - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, Harvard University
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Book Signing Event with Matthew Desmond
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