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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998. As so many of us are working with our banks to support our local communities recover and re-open yet CRA Reform is now at the forefront, especially for the OCC regulated entities.

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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

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Even neighborhood associations.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: According to a 2018 Johns Hopkins University study, every 10% increase where alcohol outlets were located, there was also a 4.2% 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.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Recapitalization (Part 3 of 4)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

F&F each need to have a level of capital [4] that meets or exceeds the requirements set by their regulator, the FHFA, to ensure safe and sound operations. [5] Based on research done with the FHFA circa 2018, a cushion of an additional five percent seems reasonable. [6] 3] The first four workstreams were in Part 2 of this series.