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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

We're focusing on this today, thanks to a powerful new comptroller's review in New Jersey that points to the municipalities in that state's failure to comply with laws pertaining to leave, "leading to both actual waste and abuse of public funds, as well as substantial future liabilities for these municipalities.”.

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Testimony of NYU Furman Center Senior Fellow Mark Willis Before the Rent Guidelines Board

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

He provided an example of where, between 2010 and 2023, rent increases allowed by the RGB fell short of what is needed to cover increased operating costs and inflation by roughly 1 percent per year in pre-1974 rent-stabilized buildings in the Bronx.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. Where have CLTs been established?

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 percent of the total land across the five boroughs but contain just 28.4

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Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

16 hosted at the NYU School of Law. Historically, the development of new housing in the city has been unevenly spread across neighborhoods, with the lowest-density community districts adding housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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