The City Fix
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008. The trend continued for the next several years.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 trillion of assets) and are the most well-known and studied GSEs.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 21, 2022
But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. However, it would be wrong to avoid thinking about how to improve our ability to respond to meteorological disasters when they occur. Was this not a disaster?
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
MARCH 18, 2022
2008); San Jose Charter of Hells Angels v. Bethards , 826 F.3d 3d 1252 (10th Cir. 2016); Saathoff v. Davis , 826 F.3d 3d 925 (7th Cir. 2016); Maldonado v. Fontanes , 568 F.3d 3d 263 (1st Cir. 2009); Viilo v. Eyre , 547 F.3d 3d 707 (7th Cir. City of San Jose , 402 F.3d 3d 962 (9th Cir. 2005); Altman v. City of High Point, N.C. , 2d 111 113 (D.
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