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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. and often people don't understand when treatments are implemented, often with little community involvement.

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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)

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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. Ramapo is unusual because its large Orthodox voting bloc was more enthusiastic about housing growth than most suburbanites.

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COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System

The Lowe Down

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares.

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AWS collaborates with Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education’s JPPKK to build next-generation AI workforce

AWS Public Sector Blog

The trained models were evaluated on three components, including cultural nuance (40 percent), technical performance (40 percent), and real-world applicability based on live audience voting (20 percent). Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 100,000 people in Malaysia in cloud skills.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While two of the many significant administrative reforms needed to implement comprehensive GSE reform were undertaken in 2019-20,[[Specifically, (1) allowing them to build capital and (2) establishing a post-conservatorship regulatory minimum capital requirement. In fact, it hasn’t seriously tried to enact such changes since about 2015.