Are “Neighborhoods Blooming” in Richmond?

Attending the talk as my academic collegue John Accordino was presenting. While the econometric model utilized offered a rather sanguine view of the program, the questions asked at the end by Greta Harris and Dan Tartar were provacative.

Of course, these dealt with displacement, but more important, the question of how the political regime change has reorganized current and future priorities around neighborhood revitalization. Moreover, a point was raised about how success has rendered continued city involvement more difficult because of rising land and housing prices. A declining federal role in CDBG funding was also raised. Leaving the question as to how the city intends to pay for future efforts at community redevelopment. Other issues/ strategies addressed included strategic land banking (to bring down parcel purchase costs); neighborhood TIF districts; the future of the tax abatement program; the future dedication of retiring tax abatement monies; community targeting (triage) as a redevelopment strategy..etc.

Check the post date and time on the story, Bill — I posted the story minutes after I received the announcement, almost a week ago, April 6th.

By definition, the weekly email broadcast is a round-up of the previous week’s posts. If you find that you are missing things, you might want to check out the site more often.

And, not to be too testy about this, but I do this for free, outside of my regular job and while going to grad school and restoring my house. Are you volunteering to help?

How about this… If I had not posted the story, you would not have found out about the event at all, right? Maybe you can forget that you ever read about it and you can be just a little bit less disappointed.

BFF,

John

giggle giggle giggle CHPN keeping me entertained once again

Bill, unless you were going to attend for social networking purposes, a copy of the report discussed is available on the Richmond Fed’s website. And, in light of your need for timely announcements, there will be another Richmond Commons on April 24th…

Info:

There is No Place Like Home: Improving Outcomes of Offenders through a Little Justice: A discussion on effective offender reentry and correction strategies

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Richmond Salon, VCU Student Commons,

907 Floyd Ave.

Faye Taxman, Professor, VCU Wilder School

Mike Wright, Chief Probation and Parole Officer, Richmond Department of Corrections

Rodney Monroe, Chief of Police, City of Richmond

C.T. Woody, Sheriff, City of Richmond

Edward R. Maguire, Associate Professor of Administration of Justice, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University

Alison Liebling, Director of Prisons Research Centre, University Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge

Moderator: Mike Herring, Commonwealth’s Attorney, City of Richmond

More information

Kevin Allison

Associate Dean for Community Activities

(804) 828-1203

kallison@vcu.edu

This forum is part of a larger two day symposium on crime prevention. Yours truly is leading a panel on the role of the business community on effective crime prevention outcomes on Tuesday the 25th at 11:00 AM. Probably not worth taking a sick day over, but if you find yourself already sick, why not stop by and fill up on some free institutional coffee.