Seeing Your City's Budget through a Strong Towns Lens

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Seeing Your City's Budget through a Strong Towns Lens

FromThe Bottom-Up Revolution

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37 minutes

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Feb 28, 2020

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Strong Towns member Cindy Long discusses how the Strong Towns Community inspired her to ask her city council the hard questions about the city's financial status.

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Feb 28, 2020

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Jason T. Hyman: Bridging the Wealth Gap Through Intentional Investment: In this episode, we talk with Jason Hyman, an urban planner, real estate professional and business owner based in Houston, Texas. His firm, Jason T. Hyman, aims to “bridge the generational wealth gap found in minority communities through creative applica... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Michael Kelley: Making Cities More Bike- and Walk-Friendly: Michael Kelley is the Director of Policy at BikeWalkKC, an advocacy organization based in Kansas City, Missouri. Their mission is to “redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living.” Michael sees biking and walking as ... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Nathan Chung and Ryan Karb: Improving Food Access Through Mobile Markets: It’s a special week for us at Strong Towns. It’s our Member Week, where we honor and celebrate the incredible people who are members of this movement all across the country. You’ve heard several of their stories on this podcast in the past, and there wil... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Charles and Whitney Coats: Promoting More Housing, More Options, More Access: Strong Towns members Charles and Whitney Coats are a husband and wife duo doing important work to increase housing opportunities in their home state of Texas. After spending two years in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia (where they saw firsth... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Gregg Lombardi: Collaborating for Neighborhood Revitalization: If you wanted to decrease crime in your neighborhood, what would you do? Say there’s a park where people tend to hang out selling and doing drugs, getting into trouble, and making the rest of the neighbrohood feel unsafe… Would you set up more police pat... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Ann Zadeh: Community Design for Stronger Towns: On last week’s episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution podcast, we heard from two inspiring Strong Towns members, Nick and Amanda Lanata, and this week we’ve got another member story for you. A brief plug: If you didn’t get a chance to become a supportin... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Haile McCollum: Small Business Owner and Community Leader: Strong Towns member Haile McCollum is a successful small business owner, creative, and leader in her town of Thomasville, Georgia. In this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution podcast, host Rachel Quednau talks with Haile about her ongoing dedication ... by The Bottom-Up Revolution
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Seeing Your City's Budget through a Strong Towns Lens

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