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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014).

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6% What’s next for Michigan land banks?

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Despite attempts at openness, for example by passing laws about disclosure, secrecy has survived remarkably well, and it is strongly backed by Draconian libel and slander laws. Banfield, E.C.

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is divided among the remaining family members, or heirs. Even if a will exists, there still usually needs to be some action taken to document the transfer from the deceased family member to the appropriate heirs.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 In both documents, see the section titled “Financing the Home Purchase.” 5] See National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2023 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The planning documents, Safe Streets for All Action Plan and Safety Data Analysis in particular, have a lot of great graphics communicating information in various ways about where crashes occur, demographics, etc., CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the Logan Library on May 16.