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Home of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (@plcc.bsky.social), Small Business Anti-Displacement Network, Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability & the Transportation Policy Research Group.
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New Carrollton station is changing! 12/2, 2:30P, walk w/ us to see what's happening around this major transit hub. There's a lot to see & more on the way. This tour will give a bird's eye view & on-the-ground look. We've got Metro, MARC, Amtrak, Purple Line & lots of new buildings bit.ly/49Dn9Tu
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New Carrollton station is changing! 12/2, 2:30P, walk w/ us to see what's happening around this major transit hub. There's a lot to see & more on the way. This tour will give a bird's eye view & on-the-ground look. We've got Metro, MARC, Amtrak, Purple Line & lots of new buildings bit.ly/49Dn9Tu
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I love seeing my @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social colleagues talking about their brilliant work!
🎧NEW EPISODE! Listen to our interview with Willow Lung, author of "The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge,” from @ucpress.bsky.social.
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New Books: The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge, by Willow Lung-Amam — Urban Affairs Review
Tune in for our conversation with Willow Lung-Amam, author of The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge , published in 2024 by UC Press. The Right to Suburbia chronicles the...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I love seeing my @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social colleagues talking about their brilliant work!
Just a reminder - this position is open until November 25!
We're hiring a new policy associate @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social! We are looking for someone interested in community responsive policy work to support center initiatives. $65K-$80K, depending on experience. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/d...
Faculty Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) envisions a world where bold ideas and integrated disciplines converge to solve t...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just a reminder - this position is open until November 25!
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2025 MD Housing Needs Assessment is out! Lots of great analysis in there...among other things it highlights our ongoing mismatch of housing options, our severe gap at multiple affordability levels, and our need for more land zoned for higher densities
Awesome work from @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social
Awesome work from @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social
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July 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
2025 MD Housing Needs Assessment is out! Lots of great analysis in there...among other things it highlights our ongoing mismatch of housing options, our severe gap at multiple affordability levels, and our need for more land zoned for higher densities
Awesome work from @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social
Awesome work from @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social
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I'm excited to be presenting on research from my forthcoming book, Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Building Reuse in Philadelphia on Nov 7th ata the APA Public Schools and Communities Division School Planning Summit! lnkd.in/eYxCPTtH
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October 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm excited to be presenting on research from my forthcoming book, Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Building Reuse in Philadelphia on Nov 7th ata the APA Public Schools and Communities Division School Planning Summit! lnkd.in/eYxCPTtH
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We're hiring a new policy associate @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social! We are looking for someone interested in community responsive policy work to support center initiatives. $65K-$80K, depending on experience. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/d...
Faculty Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) envisions a world where bold ideas and integrated disciplines converge to solve t...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're hiring a new policy associate @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social! We are looking for someone interested in community responsive policy work to support center initiatives. $65K-$80K, depending on experience. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/d...
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I should also mention that this special issue was guest edited by NCSG Faculty member @arielbphd.bsky.social who did an awesome job working with PRRAC to get a great group of essays together.
Excited to contribute to @prrac.bsky.social's new special issue on transportation equity with @plcc.bsky.social director Sheila Somashekhar & former @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social dir. Gerrit Knaap, highlighting the work of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition
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April 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I should also mention that this special issue was guest edited by NCSG Faculty member @arielbphd.bsky.social who did an awesome job working with PRRAC to get a great group of essays together.
We are excited to get our first quarterly newsletter out! In it we highlight upcoming events in the center, new research and more! ncsg-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/april-2025...
April 2025 Newsletter
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April 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We are excited to get our first quarterly newsletter out! In it we highlight upcoming events in the center, new research and more! ncsg-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/april-2025...
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Looking for a reason to celebrate? Mark your calendars for the PALS (Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability) Showcase open house to see what UMD Students + Community Partners have been doing this year May 8th, 11:30-2:00 arch.umd.edu/events/pals-...
PALS 2025 Showcase | School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
This event is open to the publicCome see the amazing work that UMD students from all different disciplines have completed as part of the Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) progra...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looking for a reason to celebrate? Mark your calendars for the PALS (Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability) Showcase open house to see what UMD Students + Community Partners have been doing this year May 8th, 11:30-2:00 arch.umd.edu/events/pals-...
Looking for a reason to celebrate? Mark your calendars for the PALS (Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability) Showcase open house to see what UMD Students + Community Partners have been doing this year May 8th, 11:30-2:00 arch.umd.edu/events/pals-...
PALS 2025 Showcase | School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
This event is open to the publicCome see the amazing work that UMD students from all different disciplines have completed as part of the Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) progra...
arch.umd.edu
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looking for a reason to celebrate? Mark your calendars for the PALS (Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability) Showcase open house to see what UMD Students + Community Partners have been doing this year May 8th, 11:30-2:00 arch.umd.edu/events/pals-...
One of our Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability (PALS) courses brought together Plant Sciences Students at UMD and @wmata.com to help develop plans for planting around stations dbknews.com/2025/03/26/u...
UMD horticulture class project aims to beautify Metro stations with native plants
The students are creating a glossary of plants and example plantings based on different Metro station environments.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One of our Partnership for Action Learning and Sustainability (PALS) courses brought together Plant Sciences Students at UMD and @wmata.com to help develop plans for planting around stations dbknews.com/2025/03/26/u...
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On a @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social lunch field trip for riverdalerestautantweek.org to Maria Bonita Restaurant. @plcc.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On a @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social lunch field trip for riverdalerestautantweek.org to Maria Bonita Restaurant. @plcc.bsky.social
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Over the past 18 months of directing @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social I've gotten to know more and more amazing Purple Line businesses. Supporting businesses like these is part of an anti-displacement agenda. Related, it's Riverdale Restaurant Week riverdalerestaurantweek.org
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Over the past 18 months of directing @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social I've gotten to know more and more amazing Purple Line businesses. Supporting businesses like these is part of an anti-displacement agenda. Related, it's Riverdale Restaurant Week riverdalerestaurantweek.org
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The Purple Line Corridor Coalition was one of the reasons I was excited about running NCSG. The commitment to coalition building, meaningful engagement in policy & practice and the intentional base in lived experience is powerful and is changing the conversation in MD. Please drop in & support us.
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· Mar 5
It's giving day at UMD. Did you know that you can donate directly to support the work of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition's work to prevent displacement along the new transit corridor @plcc.bsky.social ? giving.umd.edu/giving/fund....
Support Maryland / Purple Line Corridor Coalition
Gifts to this fund support the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC), an innovative public-private-community collaborative guided by Pathways to Opportunity: A Purple Line Corridor Community Developme...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Purple Line Corridor Coalition was one of the reasons I was excited about running NCSG. The commitment to coalition building, meaningful engagement in policy & practice and the intentional base in lived experience is powerful and is changing the conversation in MD. Please drop in & support us.
It's giving day at UMD. Did you know that you can donate directly to support the work of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition's work to prevent displacement along the new transit corridor @plcc.bsky.social ? giving.umd.edu/giving/fund....
Support Maryland / Purple Line Corridor Coalition
Gifts to this fund support the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC), an innovative public-private-community collaborative guided by Pathways to Opportunity: A Purple Line Corridor Community Developme...
giving.umd.edu
March 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's giving day at UMD. Did you know that you can donate directly to support the work of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition's work to prevent displacement along the new transit corridor @plcc.bsky.social ? giving.umd.edu/giving/fund....
A new piece from NCSG Assoc. Dir. @nick-finio.bsky.social on anticipatory effects of the Purple Line Construction in Maryland. It illustrates a clear need for ongoing partnership between multi-sector partnerships through groups like @plcc.bsky.social journalper.substack.com/p/suburban-d...
Suburban Dreams or Gentrification Nightmares?
The Purple Line's Big Impact
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March 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A new piece from NCSG Assoc. Dir. @nick-finio.bsky.social on anticipatory effects of the Purple Line Construction in Maryland. It illustrates a clear need for ongoing partnership between multi-sector partnerships through groups like @plcc.bsky.social journalper.substack.com/p/suburban-d...
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Op-Ed: Equitable Transportation Research Makes America Great from @alexkarner.bsky.social and others: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/12/o...
Op-Ed: Equitable Transportation Research Makes America Great. So Why Is the Trump Admin Hollowing It Out? — Streetsblog USA
Allowing political considerations to hollow out and cancel ongoing research is not only harmful to whatever domain the administration deems a threat, but it sets an alarming precedent for research at ...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Op-Ed: Equitable Transportation Research Makes America Great from @alexkarner.bsky.social and others: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/12/o...
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Great work out of @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social's Small Business Anti-Displacement Network - they have been working with communities across the country to better understand ways to keep preserve businesses that are often keepers of culture and gathering spaces.
DC has cutting-edge, progressive residential anti-displacement protections. Extending some of these to commercial tenants could help neighborhood small businesses survive, thereby reducing displacement.
DC has been a leader in residential tenant protections. Here’s how it could better protect small business tenants
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January 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Great work out of @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social's Small Business Anti-Displacement Network - they have been working with communities across the country to better understand ways to keep preserve businesses that are often keepers of culture and gathering spaces.
NCSG Fac. & SBAN Dir. Willow Lung-Amam on the impact of deportations in MD communities "What I fear for communities like Langley Park are not just the level of deportations…but the larger sense that that community doesn’t matter or that the people in it don’t matter" cnsmaryland.org/2024/12/03/t...
Trump’s mass deportations could hit Maryland economy, experts warn
Throughout his campaign for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump promised his administration would carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. Experts say this move…
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December 11, 2024 at 5:16 PM
NCSG Fac. & SBAN Dir. Willow Lung-Amam on the impact of deportations in MD communities "What I fear for communities like Langley Park are not just the level of deportations…but the larger sense that that community doesn’t matter or that the people in it don’t matter" cnsmaryland.org/2024/12/03/t...
NCSG Faculty member @arielbphd.bsky.social offers 4 key lessons on the ways education and community development can be mutually reinforcing from work in Baltimore City. Tl;DR: build shared goals, acknowledge the past, build deep partnerships & make anti-displacement housing policy central.
My latest article in @shelterforce.bsky.social summarizes lessons learned from my study (w @anbutler5.bsky.social and Erin O'Keefe) on Baltimore's school building program and community development efforts. shelterforce.org/2024/12/05/r...
Rebuilding Together: How One Baltimore Program Advanced Both Education and Community Development
This Baltimore program provides four lessons about how school building investments can support community development goals, and vice versa.
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December 11, 2024 at 4:12 PM
NCSG Faculty member @arielbphd.bsky.social offers 4 key lessons on the ways education and community development can be mutually reinforcing from work in Baltimore City. Tl;DR: build shared goals, acknowledge the past, build deep partnerships & make anti-displacement housing policy central.
Assoc. Dir. Nick Finio's new paper examines costs & benefits of TOD in MD. Evidence suggests that the benefits of the Purple Line may be imbalanced against costs. Coalitions pushing for TOD must be more inclusive of equity & affordable housing. @plcc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Assoc. Dir. Nick Finio's new paper examines costs & benefits of TOD in MD. Evidence suggests that the benefits of the Purple Line may be imbalanced against costs. Coalitions pushing for TOD must be more inclusive of equity & affordable housing. @plcc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Parking cashout! Speaking of parking, did you know that DC requires employers to offer alternatives to a paid parking space? Not clear the Bowser administration is ensuring that employers know about reporting on compliance by 1/15/25. Look how easy the portal is! Make sure your boss knows about it.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Parking cashout! Speaking of parking, did you know that DC requires employers to offer alternatives to a paid parking space? Not clear the Bowser administration is ensuring that employers know about reporting on compliance by 1/15/25. Look how easy the portal is! Make sure your boss knows about it.
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We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.
November 21, 2024 at 1:12 AM
We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.
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Capping the AM w/a dynamic Blue-Purple panel moderated by Chelsea Allinger (ggwash) with Del. Jazz Lewis, Robert Goldman (MHP), Ramon Jacobson (LISC DC), Carlos Perozo (Long Branch business association) & Reemberto Rodriguez ( @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social ). Asking how we start w/community for eTOD.
November 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Capping the AM w/a dynamic Blue-Purple panel moderated by Chelsea Allinger (ggwash) with Del. Jazz Lewis, Robert Goldman (MHP), Ramon Jacobson (LISC DC), Carlos Perozo (Long Branch business association) & Reemberto Rodriguez ( @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social ). Asking how we start w/community for eTOD.
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Excited to co-host Tracking Equity @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social w/LISC DC, MHP & Wells Fargo. Sheila Somashekhar @plcc.bsky.social kicks us off with a lightening Ted talk
November 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Excited to co-host Tracking Equity @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social w/LISC DC, MHP & Wells Fargo. Sheila Somashekhar @plcc.bsky.social kicks us off with a lightening Ted talk