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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. I found additional advocacy approaches designed to support a claim that MH structures will appreciate much like site-built structure-plus-land housing. These are your most affordable models.

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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)

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. But is this argument valid?

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element.