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Education. University of Toronto (BA, JD) Yale University (LLM) Awards. Order of Canada (member) Ronald Joel Daniels CM (born 1959) is a Canadian jurist, currently serving as the 14th president of the Johns Hopkins University since 2009. He served as provost at the University of Pennsylvania from 2005 to 2009.
The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson 's Great Society and War on Poverty. The concept was presented by labor leader Walter Reuther to President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. [1] In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to ...
HOPE VI is a program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to revitalize the most distressed public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments. [1] Its philosophy is largely based on New Urbanism and the concept of defensible space. The program began in 1992, with formal ...
The City of Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) traces its origins to 1991 when it was established under the Mayor Kurt Schmoke administration. BDC resulted from the consolidation of three predecessor organizations: City Center - Inner Harbor Development Inc., Baltimore Economic Development Corporation (BEDCO), and the Market Center ...
Vacants to Value. Vacants to Value is a Baltimore initiative enacted in 2010 by former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to incentivize purchases of abandoned homes in the city. The program offers financial incentives to purchase derelict properties and renovate them. [1]
The Red Line is a proposed light rail line for Baltimore, Maryland.The original project was granted federal approval to enter the preliminary engineering phase and the Maryland Transit Administration had spent roughly $300 million in planning, design and land acquisition, until Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared his intent to not provide state funds for the project and shift state funding ...
The Renewal Communities (RCs), Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs) are highly distressed urban and rural communities that may be eligible for a combination of grants, tax credits for businesses, bonding authority and other benefits. Highly distressed refers to communities who have experienced poverty and/or high emigration ...
Baltimore. ZIP Code. 21205. Area code (s) 410, 443, and 667. Middle East is a neighborhood in the heart of East Baltimore, Maryland. It is the site of a conflict between residents and the city's plans for creating a biotech park to serve nearby Johns Hopkins Hospital. The neighborhood has suffered from extensive urban decay and housing ...