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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005. Episode Transcript Available Here: [link].

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them.

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Is The Wisdom of Crowds Prone to Exaggeration? Evidence from Metaculus

The Lowe Down

We’re all natural forecasters with constant incentive to try to predict the future, be it in the pursuit of self-interested outcomes, or in the search for answers pertaining the future of humanity such as the development of emerging technologies, geo-political risk-analysis, or global development.