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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

These cohorts participate in learning exchanges in each other’s communities that feature a mix of technical and leadership trainings as well as local neighborhood tours. Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise.

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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)

Like F&F, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. 36 However, with a properly designed GSE Board in place, a public-private hybrid GSE can be a practical and reasonable vehicle to achieve public policy objectives over the long term. billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010.

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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

Among these benefits is the ability to connect people using short messages, instantaneously in a public and transparent way that is easily searchable and categorized via hashtags (#) within the platform. One important aspect of this potential public sphere is its facilitation of social and political activism. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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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

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. Of course, in the latest phase of urban attraction--post 2010--that's no longer the case. Mostly people moved into buildings that had been vacant.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Strangely, this blog is not to discuss “Vaginagate” so much as it is to illustrate a trend in contemporary leadership in regard to politics and that is prohibiting elected officials from serving in their area of expertise, or at all, due to perceived and exercised power. Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. State Legislatures.