http://www.urbanministry.org/urban_planning/featured en http://www.urbanministry.org/mapping-justice-tutormentor-connection-project <p><img hspace="5" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ajzMClyJos/STbeZ-YYEMI/AAAAAAAAASk/KpZPEHU2Lyc/s400/TMC_Conference_Nov08_Local.jpg" />&quot;Mapping for Justice&quot; is focused on showing how maps can be used to encourage the distribution of youth support programs reaching kids in high poverty areas, as well as for accountability and public recogntion/persuasion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.urbanministry.org/mapping-justice-tutormentor-connection-project#comments Computers/Technology Economic Development Link Urban Ministry - The Latest Urban Planning Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:54:05 -0600 pure.imagination 66133 at http://www.urbanministry.org http://www.urbanministry.org/how-fannie-maefreddie-mac-buyout-will-affect-urban-housing <p><img width="100" vspace="5" height="75" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.urbanministry.org/files/images/House%20skeleton%20(Life%20As%20Art).jpg" alt="" />The recent conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government sponsored enterprises conducting mortgage financial operations, is going to have a huge impact on the housing market. Ruth Simon and Michael Corker, writing for the Wall Street Journal, discuss how this buyout will affect the social mission of the two organizations in their article, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122100743549917535.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Social Mission in Doubt As the Firms Enter Conservatorship</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.urbanministry.org/how-fannie-maefreddie-mac-buyout-will-affect-urban-housing">read more</a></p> Michael Corker Ruth Simon Link Urban Planning urbanresource.net Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:25:35 -0500 pure.imagination 54093 at http://www.urbanministry.org