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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all at-risk homes (for data reasons, Staten Island is not included in our analysis). Table 1) Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all At-Risk and Higher Risk properties identified in our analysis. Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of At-Risk and Higher Risk properties.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).