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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). John Kotter’s Eight Step Model for Leading Change It definitely shows lack of accountability and no sense of urgency to act -2,000 units could house at least 4,000 people. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Digital Civic Engagement as an Equity Solution for Cities & Counties

zencity

If you were engaged civically, you attended city council meetings, voted, took an active role in civic organizations, or helped to establish community organizations. Even in 2018, before the pandemic, roughly half of Americans said they were civically active on social media. It’s a possibility 24/7.

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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

2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. 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

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. To control for pre-pandemic changes to school enrollments, I include school enrollment growth rates from the academic year starting in 2018.

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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. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.