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(cross-post with nonprofiteer.net) Had a fascinating conversation recently with Margy Waller, a special advisor to Cincinnati’s ArtsWave, which leads the nation in evidence-based approaches to advocating for arts funding. Ms. Waller had reached out to correct my misunderstanding (and therefore misreporting) of ArtsWave’s efforts, noting that the argument is not that the public should fund [...]
Archive for the ‘Urban policy’ Category
December 5th, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), Arts and Cultural Policy, charity, NonProfits, Rhetoric and Framing, Uncategorized, Urban policy, Urbanism
August 26th, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Built Environment, Health Care, Higher education, Illinois, Law Notes, NonProfits, Supreme Court, Taxation, Urban policy
When Harold Pollack wrote about the recent Illinois Department of Revenue decision to withdraw property tax exemptions from three hospitals, he naturally focused on the impact of the decision on health care. But those of us who work in other areas of the nonprofit sector are worried by the decision as well-or, if we aren’t, [...]
July 20th, 2011
Category: Urban policy
My University of Chicago SSA colleague Scott Allard has written a nice book called Out of Reach. It concerns the changing relationships between place and poverty, and the increasing suburbanization of poverty. He gave a nice interview on CSPAN Book TV. More here. This is a critical issues in areas such as, well, where I [...]
January 29th, 2011
The findings of Kahn, Zasloff and Vaughn about the effect of California Coastal Commission regulation in its effective area reminded me of something. For a while, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it came to me this morning. I’m not sure they had to go all the way to Santa Monica from [...]
September 1st, 2010
Category: Drug Policy, Urban policy
Victoria, British Columbia is trying to figure out how to deal with an encampment of homeless people who have serious substance use problems. Most homelessness is caused by rents being too high and wages being too low, but in this case the encampment is next to a shelter with empty beds, warmth, food and bathrooms [...]
July 7th, 2010
What was Antonio Villaraigosa doing with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today at the Los Angeles River? Nothing, really: only claiming credit for doing nothing.
July 1st, 2010
Surprise: People with AIDS and disadvantaged youth fare worse than large banks, Medicare recipients, and physicians in squabbling over the federal budget.
April 8th, 2010
Category: Britain, Urban policy
A useful word for a good revolution: respect pedestrians.
April 18th, 2008
As is well known, the Dutch have an extensive, pervasive, and very green bicycle habit. Big cities have four completely separate surface circulation systems with integrated signals (cars, pedestrians, trams, and bikes); tourists wandering on foot into the bike path get hit or yelled at. Bicycle parking is not a matter of a few posts [...]
