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Driven to Spend: Pumping Dollars Out of Our Households and Communities
By CNT & Surface Transportation Policy Project. June 1, 2005Examines the impacts of transportation spending on households in the metro areas for which the federal government collects expenditure data and of rising gas prices on both households and regional economies Finds that households in regions that have invested in public transportation reap financial benefits from having access to affordable…
http://www.cnt.org/repository/Driven-to-Spend-2005.pdf (268.6kb) - ReportBlue Island Plan for Economic Development: Executive Summary
By City of Blue Island, CNT. June 1, 2005Smart Growth in Older Communities
Summary of the plan for Blue Island, which incorporates plans for residential and commercial redevelopment around the community's passenger rail stop and industrial redevelopment of the cargo and freight facilities.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/BlueIslandExecSummary.pdf (1,505.2kb) - ReportGreen Building Manual
By CNT. May 1, 2005A practical guide to making your office building more healthy and efficient.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/Green-Building-Manual.pdf (257.4kb) - ManualEvaluation of the Energy-Smart Pricing Program, 2004
By Summit Blue Consulting. March 1, 2005Community Energy Cooperative
Findings from the second year of the Community Energy Cooperative's groundbreaking ESPP program set up to test consumer response to market-based electricity pricing Like the first year consumers are recpetive to price signals and willing to become more energy-efficient saving themselves money and the electricity system stress…
http://www.cnt.org/repository/ESPP-2004-Evaluation.pdf (639.5kb) - ReportLand Reform Chicago Style
By CNT. November 1, 2004A history of land reform in Chicago, including especially the work of two civic initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s and their effects up through the present-day. The paper argues that lowering abandonment and demolition rates is at least as important an indicator of well-being as new home building.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/Land-Reform-Chicago-Style.pdf (490.0kb) - ReportHidden in Plain Sight
By CNT, Center for Transit Oriented Development. September 1, 2004A market study of all the transit stations in the US, showing that demand for compact housing near transit is likely to more than double by 2025. The study relies on the first ever national transit database of all existing and pending stations, over 3,000, categorized by type.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/Hidden-in-Plain-Sight.pdf (2,246.0kb) - ReportHUD's Proposed Housing Goals for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) for the Years 2005-2008 and Amendments to HUD's Regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
By CNT, Center for Transit Oriented Development. July 15, 2004Written comments about the proposed goal levels for the Underserved Areas Goal as set by HUD Comments argue that targets can be met and in certain areas increased a result of research that households living in areas well-served by frequent and extensive alternative modes of transportation have more disposable income…
http://www.cnt.org/repository/GSERulesbyHUD.pdf (724.3kb) - TestimonyMaking the Case for Mixed-Income and Mixed-Use Communities (Executive Summary)
By Mixed-Income Communities Initiaitve of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership. July 1, 2004A report on the affordability crisis facing the Atlanta region and an argument for addressing the problem by creating mixed-income communities around transit.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/MICI-Exec-Summary.pdf (2,432.5kb) - Executive SummaryMaking the Case for Mixed-Income and Mixed-Use Communities (Full Report)
By Mixed-Income Communities Initiaitve of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership. July 1, 2004A report on the affordability crisis facing the Atlanta region and an argument for addressing the problem by creating mixed-income communities around transit.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/MICI-Full-Report.pdf (6,104.8kb) - ReportHUD’s Proposed Housing Goals for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) for the Years 2005-2008 and Amendments to HUD’s Regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
By CNT, CTOD, Reconnecting America. July 1, 2004Comments submitted in response to these changes that argue for meeting the proposed goals by recognizing the extra income resulting from transportation savings through changes to the underwriting criteria.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/GSE-Rules-by-HUD.pdf (718.2kb)
