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Boommates -- Seniors living together (from Bloomberg)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Surging costs for housing and other expenses are prompting baby boomers to take on roommates. To make ends meet, an increasing number of those 65 and older are choosing shared housing arrangements, helping save money in an era when many have fallen behind on retirement savings and there’s increasing concern about a loneliness epidemic.

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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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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

Since 2012, Ford — whom the American Public Transportation Association selected as Outstanding Public Transportation Manager in 2020 and President Barack Obama named a White House Champion of Change in 2015 — has served as the Jacksonville Transportation…

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. It's what you call a "priming effect." And you want that to happen, since you're spending billions of dollars on it. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

It houses a vast, continuously growing dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information. Since the database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank. UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

After New York passed this landmark land bank-enabling legislation, I worked with County and local officials to help establish the Broome County Land Bank in 2012, one of the first land banks in the state. For example, land banks in New York are: Expanding the Production of Affordable Housing.