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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. Up to January 2020, the Cuyahoga Land Bank was still receiving approximately 100 vacant and abandoned parcels per month into its inventory through the HB 294 tax foreclosure law.

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Leaks And Leadership: What The Era of WikiLeaks Portends For Traditional Theories Of Leader Information Sharing Practices

Public Policy Blog

In turn, this creates a potential motive for centralizing information in the hands of a single leader” (Komai et al, 2007, p. However, a new breed of platform has emerged in WikiLeaks – a not-for-profit entity with no real permanent geographic location that exists beyond the boundaries of the law of any single nation. Image: WikiLeaks.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). ” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).