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25 Affordable Housing Twitter Accounts You Should Follow

With growing need for affordable housing in our communities, we’re sharing a list of some of our favorite thought leaders in affordable housing that you can follow on Twitter.

Customer Success Story: Reaching Historically Underrepresented Communities

Cities across the country are crafting sustainability plans, but the City of Detroit took a unique approach to creating theirs by investing in a massive public engagement initiative to create the city’s first Sustainability Action Agenda.

Equity in Placemaking in the Age of COVID-19

Like all facets of life, placemaking has needed to evolve with the pandemic and the state of the world. Redefining placemaking to account for safety measures and the need for outdoor space – especially for those who lacked access even before the pandemic.

Community Engagement: Nonnegotiable for Bay Area Development

Why is community engagement so important, specifically in the Bay Area? Three experts agree on one thing: you can’t build in the Bay Area without including the community in the conversation.

A Guide to House Hunting With Accessibility In Mind

Finding the perfect home is always a challenge. When you have to factor in accessibility, however, the stakes are higher, and the options fewer. Here are some tips you can use to make your accessible housing hunt easier, less stressful, and more effective.

CRE Industry Spotlights: Aaron Horne, Trinity Financial

This fall, we’re spotlighting our partners and organizations that are making a positive impact on the industry and in our communities. Our first spotlight is Aaron Horne from Trinity Financial, a Boston-based affordable housing developer.

How Many True NIMBYs Really Exist?

So who’s really a NIMBY? Fewer people than you may think, according to a survey we conducted earlier this year. We wanted to understand what people actually think of development in the context of their communities.

The Complete Guide for Digital Community Engagement

We talk a lot about digital community engagement for planning and development projects, but how do you actually tackle community engagement online?

Community Engagement Doesn’t Stop When Construction Starts

Thoughtful planners and developers understand the importance of inclusive community engagement. Yet, community engagement during the construction phase is often overlooked.

Get to Know coUrbanize

With traditional in-person meetings on hold for the foreseeable future, more municipalities and development teams are moving engagement completely online or adding a digital component to their outreach methods. We wanted to share more about who we are and how your team can use the coUrbanize platform for online community engagement.

Placemaking in the Age of COVID-19

The pandemic offers us a unique opportunity to repurpose our streets and open spaces – rethinking how we can make our neighborhoods healthier, resilient, and more sustainable.

Tactical Urbanism: Reimagining Our Neighborhoods post Covid-19

While governments have scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens and small businesses have demonstrated both resilience and creativity in adapting outdoor and underutilized spaces to fit their new lifestyles.

On Observing Juneteenth

Although it’s been over 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived on present-day U.S. soil, we have yet to truly confront this legacy - something that’s imperative to understanding how and why systemic racism has come to take its current form in our country.