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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)

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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)

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play.

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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

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. First it was the design method instead of rational planning; Then action planning; incorporating the design method, social marketing, implementation and citizen centricity. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. By contrast, the median citywide assessed value of single-family houses built 2007 or later on unsubdivided parcels was $545,000.

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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

That is to implement (or reverse) socio-cultural changes are closely tied to a variety of feelings and emotions that are themselves closely intertwined with that their identity is in direct conflict with politically and emotionally. 2007) Limiting dissent: The mechanisms of state repression in the United States. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, J.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In terms of timing, this focus seems misplaced because such changes can be made and implemented in a matter of months, while exiting conservatorship, if and when decided, would likely take years to implement. However, legislation gave the FHFA considerable discretion to implement them and set the required goals for the GSEs.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While two of the many significant administrative reforms needed to implement comprehensive GSE reform were undertaken in 2019-20,[[Specifically, (1) allowing them to build capital and (2) establishing a post-conservatorship regulatory minimum capital requirement. In fact, it hasn’t seriously tried to enact such changes since about 2015.