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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2009); Viilo v. 6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. 08-CV-294-N-EJL, 2009 WL 3823106 (D. 12, 2009); Dziekan v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.”

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6% The Ingham County Land Bank saw a return of $1.82

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014).

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Another reform announced in 2014 closed a loophole whereby the FHLBs increased their taxpayer-subsidized advances by lending to captive insurance companies created by mortgage REITS 31 (a specialty type of leveraged investment fund that is ineligible for FHLB membership), which the FHFA ruled inconsistent with the legislation that created the FHLBs.

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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

: arts as revitalization versus arts as community building ," (2024) In 2009, I gave a presentation at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference about "arts districts" and theatre as an example of an artistic-discipline focused approach. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural (..)

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. Some cities and states have been changing laws to address this (" 'Potty Parity': Equal Wait Time for Men's and Women's Restrooms ," Time Magazine ). 3, Supplement.