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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The New York City Council is currently considering the Department of City Planning’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) zoning reform proposal, and is set to vote on the proposed changes by the end of the year. In 2021, the NYU Furman Center’s Local Housing Solutions published a brief on Reduced Parking Requirements.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

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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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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But in recent years, California’s state government has stepped in to accelerate housing production by reforming zoning regulations, removing some of the red tape that has slowed production, and cracking down on localities that have historically resisted densifying. million units.

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

July 19, 2021. That New Deal meant that the government would no longer work simply to promote business, but would regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure. trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Heather Cox Richardson.

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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)

reforms that Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of F&F, could undertake instead. The Biden administration Since the Biden administration took office in January 2021, almost all GSE reform activities stopped. Is the planned conservatorship exit real or not (Part 1)?

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Brand America 2025

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Yet this is a powerful vote of confidence. per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021 was almost six times as high as that of the UK and 30 times that of Japan. One might hope that the scale of the US market, its relatively light regulation, the quality of its science and its attractions to high-quality immigrants are the explanations.

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