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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. Kerslake, B.

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An economic development "transformational projects action plan" for Greater Wichita

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Lawing said the document gives the Workforce Alliance and others a starting point for competitively applying for federal grants. "I Some examples of the concept are written about here: -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? These things are all knit together now," Fluhr said. Other projects exist, but these are the most attainable.

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Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Comparing redevelopment outcomes in central Dallas tax increment financing districts ," Land Use Policy (2021) -- " Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields ," IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2017) == Economic impact of individual spending by sports patrons.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2561, 2562 (2018). 2012, 2019 (2017). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. See Sause v. Bauer , 138 S. Comer , 137 S.