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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative.

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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)

15] The typical method of attaching an MH unit to the underlying land –which is based upon something less than a traditional foundation but considered adequate to resist high winds - is not permanent enough to qualify as being joined together for real property law to allow both to be considered joined into a single economic unit.

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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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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This allowed its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – which declared itself to be their conservator – to operate the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards. 8] ) Such crowding in was a stated objective of the conservatorship during the years when Ed DeMarco was acting director (2009 to 2013).

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