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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This simple advocacy narrative is even generalized, not restricting MH to the geographies where it currently has a high market share, i.e., lower population density areas where land is readily available and inexpensive. .” MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. ” [16] See U.S. See Statista, ( [link] ). [19]

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).

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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. There is tension in the federal laws on parks and public lands, between access and protection, including keeping some lands natural, or wilderness. From the article: NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES It's not clear how the United States' 63 national parks would be affected. Wilderness.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. I have thoughts on this in " What is an inclusive city? " (2013) but I can't say it's super specific. Negro Motorist Green Book and public accommodations laws and enforcement. Urban forestry is usually a responsibility for city transportation agencies.