Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. The program has been quite successful (" After Years Of Violence, L.A.'s I think it's a model that's quite portable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As of 2024, it’s never been harder for artists to find a place to work. In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) To have a studio at all, one has either to be able to afford to buy or have a gracious and understanding landlord, both rarities in the current real estate market.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. You'd think she'd be reticent (" Exclusive: Mayor Bowser says "don't be so down on D.C." The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 23, 2023

residents believe the 2020 census questions about race and ethnicity represent their identity “very well.”  However, this is likely to change due to recent Office of Management and Budget efforts to formally review and update demographic data standards by the summer of 2024.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In July 2024, the Pentagon conducted a study that revealed a sobering statistic: US soldiers are nine times more likely to die by suicide than in combat, leading to suicide being the number one cause of death for US soldiers. Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction In April, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially solicited public comment on a proposal from Freddie Mac, one of the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) it oversees, to begin a pilot program to finance closed-end second (CES) mortgages. It seems clear it would not.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. But even before that I went back and forth on it. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Furman Center faculty directors Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Kathy O’Regan recently released “ Supply Skepticism Revisited ”, highlighting the latest rigorous research that draws out the nuanced effects housing supply has on housing affordability. “We need all hands on deck producing all housing.”

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That’s why the Center launched its “Transition Lab” podcast during the 2020 presidential election cycle. The lessons learned from past transitions proved especially helpful to understanding recent events, including the 2020 transition that was unlike any other in American history.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Town-city management: We are all asset managers now " (2015) is a further extension of these ideas, in part around risk management (" Where is the risk management approach to police misconduct and regularized killings of citizens? ," 2020). the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Shoppers will find a wide selection of arts and crafts for all tastes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). Monuments that are controversial.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Women make up the highest proportion of Congress than ever before – 29% of the House and 25% of the Senate, a considerable increase from even ten years ago when women held only 18% of Congressional seats. For almost one hundred years southern states have elected women to the House at lower rates than the U.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. While Biden won in 2020, the rest of the ballot didn't do so well for Democrats. And the commercial real estate market is tanking because of work from home, but the CRE market likely isn't top of mind the way housing sales are. Conclusion.

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