The Lowe Down

MAY 1, 2024

Meanwhile, areas once reliant on commuters and nightlife have experienced less predictable market reactions as a general rise in prices due to overall housing scarcity is muted by slackening local demand. I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most notably, a January 2022 White House memo requires agencies to meet specific zero-trust strategy objectives by Sept. 30, 2024, the end of the fiscal year. This involves creating micro perimeters around each application and its data, making it easier to contain and mitigate attacks within specific boundaries.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

million households in the UK without internet access, according to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. A report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found that a lack of digital skills costs the UK economy a staggering £63 billion annually.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mayor Erin Mendenhall and council member Dan Dugan swap out a 25 mph speed limit sign for a new 20 mph sign in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

We’d just moved back in and reopened the doors in October of 2022. In spring 2023, we held our ‘Outdoor Open House’ to showcase the new patios, the terrace, the plaza, and whatnot. Mike will do a few things differently for the 2024 Card Crawl. “Our building recently underwent an $18.5M renovation,” remembers Mike.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2023

A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. 31, 2022, although that will likely extend to June 2024. Digital-first efforts are underway in government agencies. But Macnak said meeting those mandates doesn’t require true digitization.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In December 2022, Congress passed an appropriations package that included statutory provisions allowing for additional eligible uses for the American Rescue Plan Act State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (ARPA SLFRF). To quote Treasury directly, “ (T)he existing eligible uses, as discussed in the 2022 final rule, remain unchanged.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). blocks from a light rail station.

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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)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Introduction The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) 1 published its “Report on Nonbank Mortgage Servicing 2024” 2 (the Report) earlier this year. By 2022, the NMS industry had grown to command 54 percent of the servicing market, with expectations for further share growth. government. Both are units of the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

And various phases of a new central station complex --station, retail, office, hotel--are opening between now and 2024. Last year, in advance of the line's opening, Nagasaki opened a new convention center.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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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)

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

7 Second, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the largest government agency that helps finance homeownership, routinely insures mortgages with just a 3.5 1 See “Down Payment Assistance Programs & Grants by State 2024,” [link]. percent from 2019 to 2022 (the latest available). ” April 1, 2024.

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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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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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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I went from checking out my favorite creepy books in North Carolina to walking to the library from my house in Bakersfield, California as a teen, and later, seeking out the library as a quiet refuge in college.” The last happened in 2022. Libraries have been a constant in my life. It’s no wonder she ended up working in a library.

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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. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place.

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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

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s million for a “dedicated team and marketing efforts to facilitate the transformation of Downtown D.C.

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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. Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. 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. Destination events and problems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. 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. Children are encouraged to get creative with an arts and crafts project in the Children’s Art Tent. Destination events and problems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Also see " Third place issues " (2024) and " Strangers are good for us ," an op-ed by David Sax in the New York Times. Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility.

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