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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

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. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

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And I don't see things changing. Note that William Bratton's latest book is very good (" Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing ," New York Times ).

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

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DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. In the words of one of them, Oleksandr Kamyshin, a 38-year-old former manager of a venture-capital fund who is now restructuring Ukraine’s arms industry, “we call it Ukraine 2.0. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. The post In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. Lots of deaths. It's being built relatively quickly.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. But even before that I went back and forth on it.

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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)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA, meanwhile, has stated that there is no intention to do such redistribution and that the changes resulted instead from updating the GSE risk adjustments, mostly set about a decade ago, to be consistent with the rule it adopted in 2020 for minimum required capital. A Long-term Increase in G-fees?