2012 Housing Voting 
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 27, 2024
It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 12, 2023
"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. I am not sure it passed, because there is a vote in August on a property tax levy for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.
Poverty & Policy
JUNE 12, 2017
The Council’s unanimous vote for a policy more protective than what the Mayor originally proposed is maybe the biggest high point of this budget season. The House Republican Study Group tried to get the program block granted in 2012. It’s not the first effort to cut SSI funding.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. However, the movement’s electoral success in 2010 did not carry over to the 2012 midterm elections.
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