Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this. So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article. At the same time, for a city, preservation is pretty cheap.

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 22, 2022

The result of a call for proposals put out in 2020, BART announced in early March 2022 the eight winning ideas for old subway cars. The owners hope to see the house last upwards of 100 years. “We’d like to see them given a new life. We’d like to see them repurposed and have people continue to enjoy these cars.”.

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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."

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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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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Previously, she was a Senior Committee Counsel for both the House of Representatives and Senate Committees on Homeland Security. What can you do to influence the making of laws at the national level is also addressed. They have the most reliable 5G according to umlaut based on crowdsourced user experience data (Sept 2020 to Feb 2021).

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

See past blog entries: -- " Pathetic not revelatory: Quality of bus stop study in San Francisco ," 2021 -- " Bus shelters as social spaces, as potential vectors for virus: Seoul's new anti-covid bus shelter ," 2020 Project for Public Spaces has a report on the topic, Destination Station: Transforming Bus Stops through Community Outreach.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 18, 2022

Like all government agencies, law enforcement agencies are very conscious of jurisdiction, and definitely a federal agency wouldn't step in unilaterally. I don't know what to think about this.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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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.”  Subsequent updates , most recently in 1997, helped enforce civil rights laws and ensure uniformity and comparability across federal data sets. According to the Pew Research Center , only about half of U.S. 15 in 1977.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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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)

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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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Across the country, policymakers are dealing with the impact of exclusionary zoning practices that have created barriers to housing supply and restricted access to high-opportunity neighborhoods for low-income families. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 percent to 19.2

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

IDEM – Clean Air Tip This site goes beyond the usual and shows you how to reduce your pollution contribution at the office and around the house. This blog follows clean energy news and discusses developments and laws on the topic. In recent news is Australia’s vow to be carbon neutral by 2020. Let us count the ways!

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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. 16 hosted at the NYU School of Law. .

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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. The provision also sets a two-year statute of limitations except for 2017 injuries that are filed in 2020. 2512 (2020), appealed from Siddiqui v. United States , 889 F.3d 3d 978, 981 (9th Cir.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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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.), A decade is just a start.

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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. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah. In the 2020 cycle, into all four of the districts. Salt Lake County is about 1/3 of the state's total population.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

In this case, how the law would be perceived in the world of public opinion, and the competition between Republicans and Democrats. But after a 2020 election when perceptions of being soft on crime hurt many Democratic candidates, the D.C. This letter to the editor (" The D.C. I proudly wear my “51” hat.

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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.

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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. 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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