Monday, October 24th, 2005
The CNT Board announced the appointment of Kathryn Tholin to the post of CEO. Kathy had been acting as interim CEO since February, when her predecessor, Robert Lieberman, resigned to accept an appointment to the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Kathy has a long tenure with the organization. She first joined CNT in 1978 and remained on staff for the next decade, departing in 1988 to join the Woodstock Institute as executive vice president. Kathy continued her association with CNT as a member of the board, eventually returning in 2000 to join CNT’s senior staff to develop and manage the Community Energy Cooperative. Through her position with the Cooperative, Kathy guided CNT’s work in the field of energy policy, conservation and real-time pricing.
Read more about Kathy’s appointment.
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
The market for housing located near transit seems to grow stronger everyday. Why is that? In addition to its many other benefits, transit-oriented development TOD offers households the opportunity to reduce their transportation expenditures by giving them transportation alternatives to the automobile and easy access to local services and amenities.
In the most recent newsletter of the Center for Transit Oriented Development CTOD, CNT’s Scott Bernstein and Carrie Makarewicz make a case for the inherent “affordability” of TOD using brand new research carried out by CNT and CTOD. With funding from the Brookings Institution Urban Markets Initiative, the McKnight Foundation and the Surdna Foundation, the two groups have developed an “Affordability Index” that predicts the costs of transportation a household is likely to bear given its geographic location in a region.
Read more about the Affordability Index in “Rethinking Affordability: The Inherent Value of TOD.”
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