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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. A project-oriented grant might be based on an outreach campaign to try to improve food access and healthy eating within the target community.

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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)

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Our data can help that outreach be more effective by identifying at risk households for targeted outreach campaigns. Coordinate across systems to avoid unintended harm. Without coordination across these systems, well-intentioned policies can work at cross purposes and unintentionally penalize the very households they aim to support.

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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. Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. Collective action (CA) can be defined as all activity of common or shared interest among two or more individuals (Olson, 1971).

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. One of his campaigns was a bus boycott in response to a fare increase (" Marion Barry Leads Bus Boycott ," WETA/PBS).