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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. . == This is what I wrote in 2012 [links not re-checked]: I haven't kept up with the issue. That bill is before the House for final approval next week.

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House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes

Poverty & Policy

So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill. The House bill would eliminate the CFC program in 2020, cutting an estimated $12 billion in federal Medicaid funding in the first six years.

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Gerrymandering in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah. In the 2010 cycle they divided Salt Lake County into three of the four districts.

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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People

Poverty & Policy

Safe, stable housing that leaves enough income to help pay for other needs. The Coalition on Human Needs chose 185 such programs and tracked their funding from 2010, the year before Congress passed the Budget Control Act, through the budget the federal government’s operating under now.

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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

Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell 2010, p. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,