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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). This suggests that public housing agencies may rely on eviction filings as a rent collection strategy. Background and Context.

Housing

Housing Accountability Development Management

The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

Housing

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Housing

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Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

Housing

Housing Implementation Public Health Local Government

To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020).

Transportation

Transportation Housing Sustainability Management

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)

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Methodology.

Housing

Housing Implementation Outreach Social Services

Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

Housing

Housing Regulations Government Accountability

Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

Economic Development

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Transforming the performance of your built assets and estate

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets. DIO manages around 1.8%

Sustainability

Sustainability Operations Public Sector Management

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016).

Parks And Recreation

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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Social Media Public Safety Housing Management

Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court. Possessory Judgments. Unexecuted Warrants.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

Parks And Recreation

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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)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

Housing

Housing Advocacy Development Laws

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)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Seasonality. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure. Make accommodations as needed, from lighting to snow clearance.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It

Economic Development

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

Nonprofit

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development

A Nevada Library Shares How They Used A Smart Video Marketing Strategy To Combat Drag Story Hour Protests

Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I went from checking out my favorite creepy books in North Carolina to walking to the library from my house in Bakersfield, California as a teen, and later, seeking out the library as a quiet refuge in college.” In 2016 I made the conscious decision to pivot my resume towards library marketing and joined our Marketing and Communications team.

Social Media

Social Media Nonprofit Outreach Development

FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. 1713 (2019) (majority denies writ of certiorari for husband's medical malpractice claim due to his Navy Lieutenant's wife's death during childbirth). DeVries , 139 S. United States , 139 S. App'x 484 (6th Cir.

Legislation

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions. But these are the basic ones. Conclusion.

Voting

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

Legislation

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2024 in Libraries

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

Housing

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

Housing

Housing Laws Regulations Development

Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

Webinars

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

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

Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Transforming the performance of your built assets and estate

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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)

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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

A Nevada Library Shares How They Used A Smart Video Marketing Strategy To Combat Drag Story Hour Protests

FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

2024 in Libraries

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

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