2008 Advocacy Events 
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." Such an activity should be a key event during National Bike Month, in every major metropolitan area. Planning and advocacy. There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands. Goes without saying.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 27, 2024
There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) At the Long Beach Beach Streets event, they prototyped sustainable road treatments, but with explanation. Community pop up event showing what a greenway could look like in their neighborhood.
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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MAY 6, 2024
Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries.
Grant Writing Made Easy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. I wrote essays on current events. The great fortune of getting a great job offer when there were very, very few available made it difficult to consider whether it was what I wanted. I wrote a novel.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JUNE 10, 2024
Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Appraisals.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
This simple advocacy narrative is even generalized, not restricting MH to the geographies where it currently has a high market share, i.e., lower population density areas where land is readily available and inexpensive. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.
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