The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, 68 percent of new multifamily buildings used various forms of a 421-a exemption , accounting for 116,000 of the 171,000 housing units completed in multifamily buildings that decade. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While it is a pathbreaking initiative, at the same time, it's static in that it is a funding source extremely difficult to modify for supporting "new" programs, because it requires the State Legislature to change the enabling legislation. But the time to change that is not when an organization is about to fail, but long before.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

We used it to map the location, materials, type and, where possible, brands of 43,187 items of litter collected across the UK in 2020. From the article: The community interest company Planet Patrol created an app for people to record the litter they find and remove. Our research was recently published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

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Librarian.net

JULY 15, 2023

Previous reports from me: June 2020 , January 2021 (did not write a report), July 2021 , January 2022 , June 2022 (did not go to ALA ), January 2023 I filled in for outgoing Councilor Marti Fisk who moved, and was elected to a three-year term starting in 2020. Here is my report.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The 2020 United States presidential election saw a major increase in mail-in voting as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the historical increase of mail-in-voting has occurred naturally through gradual adoption by voters, recent legislation like the California Voter’s Choice Act (VCA) has provided a boost.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To me, a classic failure to do this kind of work to result in significant improvements in civic participation are DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions , which get little in the way of help. -- " Setting up DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions for success ," 2022 There are 46 bodies, set up to cover part of a Ward.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

13 Unfortunately, Congress did not explicitly define the GSEs’ mission in the legislation creating Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, leaving it instead to be defined indirectly by their legislatively permitted activities and more general language. As a result, determining their mission is somewhat subjective.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. The interesting thing about this upcoming election is that if there was ever an election where the incumbent party is likely to hold their seats, it's probably 2022.”. -

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rather, since the New York City Housing Court began to accept new eviction filings again on June 20, 2020, certain types of cases moved forward despite a complex intersection of Local, State, and Federal protections. Since March 17, 2020 (through the most recent data update of January 9, 2022) there have been 78,652 new eviction filings.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. 4 See Fred Ashton, October 2022, America Action Forum. This type of proposal for legislation is often a direct outgrowth of industry lobbying, so it is not unexpected. See [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The FHFA, meanwhile, has stated that there is no intention to do such redistribution and that the changes resulted instead from updating the GSE risk adjustments, mostly set about a decade ago, to be consistent with the rule it adopted in 2020 for minimum required capital. the legislation that established them).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. ” [link]. [9] ” [link].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

Strengthening the city around buildings with meaning and architectural character is the way to go (" Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure "). So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Legislative measures such as the UPHPA and the transfer-on-death deed law are important steps forward, but additional efforts are needed to guarantee that homeowners know about and have access to the legal and financial resources necessary to protect their properties. 7058, 2019-2020 Reg. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance. I proudly wear my “51” hat.

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GovLoop

MAY 15, 2023

An interview with Kelly Adams, Communication and Education Supervisor, and Smokey Solis, Communication and Education Specialist, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation In 2020, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation adopted a unique — and often delightfully irreverent — approach to its use of social media.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Legislators haven’t seriously considered measures to discourage drinking, and voters expanded access to alcohol in grocery stores. From the first article: Alcohol killed 1,547 people statewide in 2022 — fewer than the 1,799 who died of overdoses. Part 2: Colorado has some of the lowest alcohol taxes and highest drinking deaths.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 15, 2023

Due in part to this directive, the percentage of federal employees who identify as LGBTQ+ has grown in recent years—from less than 6% in 2020 to almost 7% in 2022. While there is room for further growth, this increase is a positive sign.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Counter the so-called “deep state” by eliminating GSE programs which were approved by government officials without clear authorization from congressional legislation. 11] While one can see a lot of support for this pricing policy in the industry and among working families, this was done without any specific legislative authority.

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