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Organization - Urban Institute
Grant Amount - $30,000
Foundation - MacArthur Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of a U.S.-U.K. study exchange related to mixed-income communities.
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Urban Institute - $400,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center toward the costs of two mixed-income housing research projects: (1) a longitudinal study to assess how the HOPE VI program, in which distressed developments are being replaced with...
New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative - $100,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of establishing a funding pool for predevelopment and site acquisition activities for blighted, vacant and deteriorated properties in central New Orleans as a first step in creating a thriving, mixed-income, mixed-use community...
Urban Institute - $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center in support of a research study that compares U.S.-U.K. experiences in using mixed-income housing models as strategies for revitalizing distressed communities
Chicago Jobs Council - $435,000 from the MacArthur Foundation - in support of employment related services to help low-income families succeed in new mixed-income housing.
Council of Large Public Housing Authorities - $625,000 from the MacArthur Foundation - in support of a six-city cost-benefit study of the economic impacts of mixed-income communities on surrounding neighborhoods and local public finances.
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