Virginia Housing

Beyond Bricks & Sticks. A weekly digest of current trends in housing and community development. The discussion examines topics from infrastructure to community fabric.

Clark Resident Named CEO Of Health System Non-Profit
Bipartisan Bill Aims to Boost Brownfield Redevelopment
Patient urbanism: Build neighborhoods without high debt
Mastering the Metro: How Metro Regions Can Win Friends and Influence Economies
Pushing to restore community mental health services
Improving efforts to house the homeless

General Housing

Clark Resident Named CEO Of Health System Non-Profit

(RECAP: MARRIOTTSVILLE, Md. – Following a nationwide search, Bon Secours Health System (BSHSI) today announced the appointment of Clark resident Carlos G. Beato as chief executive officer for Bon Secours New York Health System (BSNY) in Riverdale, New York. Beato will assume his new responsibilities on April 15.)
http://njtoday.net/2013/03/13/clark-resident-named-ceo-of-health-system-non-profit/#ixzz2NTdALCaz 

Community Investment

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Boost Brownfield Redevelopment

(RECAP: This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development Act of 2013 (BUILD Act), a bill aimed at assisting local communities in remediating and redeveloping contaminated sites.)
http://www.planetizen.com/node/61117

Neighborhood Transformation

Patient urbanism: Build neighborhoods without high debt

(RECAP: Building neighborhoods patiently requires far less debt for infrastructure and results in places that are more interesting than those that are built all at once. This was once the way we built everywhere, but it is now illegal all over. Why?)
http://bettercities.net/news-opinion/blogs/steve-mouzon/19825/patient-urbanism-build-neighborhoods-without-high-debt

Mastering the Metro: How Metro Regions Can Win Friends and Influence Economies

(RECAP: If networks are the new, fast and partly-out-of-your-control vehicles for individual career building, could they also be the vehicles for building stronger economies and more livable communities in metropolitan areas?)
http://nextcity.org/forefront/view/mastering-the-metro

Housing with Services

Pushing to restore community mental health services

(RECAP: The push to restore $120 million in local disability services has been one of the emerging themes in this year’s budget-building drama and now another lower-key narrative is developing, at least today, about the $5 million the governor and Democrats want for local mental health supports but which Senate Republicans are zeroing out.)
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/181607/pushing-to-restore-community-mental-health-services/

Improving efforts to house the homeless

(RECAP: On one of the coldest weekends of the year, homeless outreach providers found 186 people living on the streets of Indianapolis. It's a much smaller number than the 1,647 tallied in a single night in 2012. Temperatures on the day of that survey, Jan. 25, ranged from 33 to 54. But organizers note that circumstances were much different this year.)
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/improving-efforts-to-house-the-homeless/Content?oid=2535846#.UUE1gI7qPTR