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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Traditional technology procurement challenges service transformation When the UK government wanted to transform services to make them modern and digital in 2011, the approach to technology investment then was the same as it was for capital infrastructure projects such as road building. The frameworks they developed became the GOV.UK

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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal

Center for Community Progress

Many of these are small contracts that support housing and community development needs in specified service areas around the state. The establishment of the New York Land Bank Act in 2011 was big news. These awards were renewable to offer up to three years of consistent operational funding.

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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. Inability to continue mortgage servicing operations. 23 Yet that 0.25

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The tsunami museum at Rikusentakata, seen from atop the coastal tsunami barrier across the land that was devastated by the waves in March 2011 Thursday 11 th March 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the Japanese triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and radiation release. People who lost their homes had to live in transitional houses only 28.5

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011). Libraries as community hubs. Probably in rented space (" PC Tots invites all to ribbon cutting at Park City Library ," Park Record ). Libros Book Club. Photo: Nate Martinez, Express-News.