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

Center for Community Progress

The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009. The government land banks’ ability to transact these properties is more regulated and less flexible when it comes to property disposition compared to private-entity transactions.

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10 ways that governments incentivize cloud use to accelerate digital transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Regulatory reforms Governments update regulations and policies to remove barriers to digital innovation and entrepreneurship. Spain launched the Aporta Initiative in 2009 to open public information and promote data-based development of modern services.

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Addressing federal record retention in mobile device messaging

AWS Public Sector Blog

The majority are subject to Federal Records Act (FRA) and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regulations that require them to collect, store, and manage federal records that are created, received, and used in daily operations. There are hundreds of US federal government departments and agencies.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

12] This is not a level considered “adequately capitalized” by the regulators. These reforms also include major changes to how the GSEs do their business. Prior to 2013, when the first CRT transactions were done, this information was kept confidential. [11] 11] This excludes a 0.10

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Over Forty National, Local, and Land Bank Stakeholders Join Community Progress in Asking Bank Regulators to Strengthen the CRA

Center for Community Progress

This joint effort represents the first major revisions to CRA regulations since 1995. Land banks play an important, innovative role in community development, and land banks and land banking activities should be included in the final CRA regulation. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible. Don’t limit the scope or scale of CRA.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. The Report notes, by contrast, that the regulations that apply to banks are designed to do just that.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC did that in 2009. I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." increase in violent crimes.