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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)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. ” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " From BTMFBA to "community right to buy" ," (2024) -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," (2016) -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City ," (2024) -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," (2023) -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let (..)

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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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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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

and his brother-in-law L. trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. It was 35% before the 2017 tax cut.). In 1954, William F. Buckley, Jr.,

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. More and more women are being elected to City Councils, etc.

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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias. The campaign would definitely raise the profile of law, Constitutional Law, and the federal criminal justice system. Elect the Attorney General/Make the Department of Justice an independent Executive Branch agency.

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