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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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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

We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc.

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The lesson after three months was that DC spends billions of dollars each year--police, emergency services, health and social services, criminal justice, education, etc., It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transit access is more complicated even because "choice riders"--people with cars--see transit more as a social service, not a vital community service. I have thoughts on this in " What is an inclusive city? " (2013) but I can't say it's super specific. Urban design and minority communities.