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How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference

Center for Community Progress

What : The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference has been around since 2007, bringing together about 1,000 attendees in cities across the country every two years. You’ll learn about new laws and issues affecting vacant property. Your community is facing different challenges in 2024 than it was in 2007, and even in 2022.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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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)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. One, housing is among the most potent political issues because it is both large and ubiquitous: it is usually the largest part of every family’s monthly budget, while the industry is also a big employer 30 in every single congressional district and state.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

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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

Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct. 2007) Limiting dissent: The mechanisms of state repression in the United States. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, J.