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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.”

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding

The Lowe Down

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Although democracy has greatly expanded globally over the past few decades, democratic backsliding has been a topic of concern over recent years.

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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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Gerrymandering in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. And the Governor says when progressives complain, "Vote." But I thought it would be okay, because Salt Lake County and City is pretty progressive, all things considered. But he has good pr.

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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. In 1954, William F. Buckley, Jr., Brent Bozell, Jr., government.

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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. These are discussed further below.]] there has been no progress since.