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The Eviction Experts
Can a city stop a housing crisis?
On Development: The cloud is made of concrete
Things happen one by one by one over the months and years, and we don’t see it happening until we’re overwhelmed.
Peer cities show pitfalls, potential as LinkUS initiative brings Bus Rapid Transit to Columbus
Cities such as Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Cleveland offer instructive examples in the wake of voters approving Issue 47 in November.
On Development: Another way of looking at Franklinton
It would be easy for Jim Sweeney and Blake Compton of Walnut Street Partners to level the dozen or so remaining worker houses on a short, narrow block of Walnut Street and put up a couple of typical, boxy “five-over-ones” with tax abatements. But that’s not their vision.
On Development: Keep Wall Street out of the Columbus housing market
The city’s tax abatements for apartment projects are, in effect, subsidizing the rapacious interest rates of the private equity and hedge fund ‘investors’ who help finance housing development.
Looming eviction threatens the end of Skylab Gallery
Barring last-minute reprieve, the long-running, artist-operated exhibition and performance space, which has existed on the fifth floor of 57 E. Gay St. since 1998, is about to enter its final month of existence.
Local Politics: The faulty math behind Columbus’ broken tax abatement system
In deals sold to the public as win-win, companies often receive years-long tax breaks in return for creating new jobs that officials say can produce net benefits in income and property taxes. But when these businesses don’t deliver on promises – as is often the case – the math quickly falls apart.
On Development: Preserve the future
Columbus is rife with silly franchised juice bars, phone stores, and other fleeting chains that occupy space for a while but never come close to replacing venerable dives and other businesses that were bulldozed to make room for ‘progress.’
The affordable housing crisis is also a health crisis
Dr. Craig Evan Pollack will draw on the years he has spent studying the links between housing and health outcomes when he appears as part of a panel discussion at Lincoln Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The Eviction Experts
Can a city stop a housing crisis?
On Development: The cloud is made of concrete
Things happen one by one by one over the months and years, and we don’t see it happening until we’re overwhelmed.
Peer cities show pitfalls, potential as LinkUS initiative brings Bus Rapid Transit to Columbus
Cities such as Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Cleveland offer instructive examples in the wake of voters approving Issue 47 in November.
On Development: Another way of looking at Franklinton
It would be easy for Jim Sweeney and Blake Compton of Walnut Street Partners to level the dozen or so remaining worker houses on a short, narrow block of Walnut Street and put up a couple of typical, boxy “five-over-ones” with tax abatements. But that’s not their vision.
On Development: Keep Wall Street out of the Columbus housing market
The city’s tax abatements for apartment projects are, in effect, subsidizing the rapacious interest rates of the private equity and hedge fund ‘investors’ who help finance housing development.
Looming eviction threatens the end of Skylab Gallery
Barring last-minute reprieve, the long-running, artist-operated exhibition and performance space, which has existed on the fifth floor of 57 E. Gay St. since 1998, is about to enter its final month of existence.
Local Politics: The faulty math behind Columbus’ broken tax abatement system
In deals sold to the public as win-win, companies often receive years-long tax breaks in return for creating new jobs that officials say can produce net benefits in income and property taxes. But when these businesses don’t deliver on promises – as is often the case – the math quickly falls apart.
On Development: Preserve the future
Columbus is rife with silly franchised juice bars, phone stores, and other fleeting chains that occupy space for a while but never come close to replacing venerable dives and other businesses that were bulldozed to make room for ‘progress.’
The affordable housing crisis is also a health crisis
Dr. Craig Evan Pollack will draw on the years he has spent studying the links between housing and health outcomes when he appears as part of a panel discussion at Lincoln Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 25.