The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Rises in inequality do not seem to cause backsliding.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 8, 2024

This disparity not only violates the principles of Equal Protection and Fair Housing laws but also contributes to deepening the divide in housing affordability, placing a heavier financial burden on Black households and potentially affecting the long-term value of their properties.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

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. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

AI Executive Orders, Laws, and Regulations In recent years, several laws and executive orders have been enacted to govern the use of AI across various sectors in the United States, ensuring that its deployment is ethical, secure, and compliant with existing regulations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Moore-Bick, M.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court. These will each be explained in more detail below.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it. Though heirs’ property is widespread, it disproportionately affects Black landowners in the South due to the legacy of slavery and racist land ownership laws.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. But since we moved here in Fall 2019 it's only gotten worse--partly because I am now more familiar at a granular level of the b.s. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. There is tension in the federal laws on parks and public lands, between access and protection, including keeping some lands natural, or wilderness. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Wilderness.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

The report says annual tax revenue generated from downtown has declined by $243 million since 2019, and if current conditions are left unabated, could decline by an additional $193 million over the next five to 10 years. Downtown brings $2.3 A decade is just a start.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 14, 2025

Another Bloomberg article, also from 2019, argues " Why Historic Preservation Needs a New Approach " " Place Making and Place Breaking: Migration and the Development Cycle of Community in Colonial Mexico ," American Ethnologist, " How might the concept of place-breaking challenge and support the practice of place- making?

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. Local government must designate itself as a housing authority. No referendum is required for cities. Section V.B.2

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It is a nonprofit organization that I started in 2019 for girls ages 8-15 years of age and is focused on educating, engaging and empowering them to be successful in life.Monthly empowerment sessions on topics relevant to them are planned and led by women leaders in our community.We Whats one thing you love about your community?

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In 2019, Stellantis (then known as Fiat Chrysler) announced a $2.5 This triggered the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) a unique law that requires companies. billion plan to expand and modernize two of its auto assembly plants in Detroit.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

and his brother-in-law L. Negotiators are still hammering out that agreement and Democrats are making concessions; yesterday, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, told CNN that a provision to pay for the package in part by enforcing tax laws against those ignoring them bothered Republicans enough that negotiators cut it. government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This is a great explication of the network concept applied to biking. From the c. Advertising supplement to the Washington Star, 1975.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr. See [link].]]

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. 1713 (2019) (majority denies writ of certiorari for husband's medical malpractice claim due to his Navy Lieutenant's wife's death during childbirth). DeVries , 139 S. United States , 139 S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. Last election after the debacle of CHOP/CHAZ , a more center candidate won as Mayor and a more law and order type as district attorney. Conclusion.

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