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Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!

zencity

His principal management responsibility included oversight of the City’s employees and a multi-billion dollar budget. Few things could be more exciting for us, or represent a higher vote of confidence in Zencity’s mission and future, than Maurice’s growth from a customer, to an advisor, and now to our COO. Welcome to the team, Maurice!

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v. Housing Authorities Law. Chapter 157).

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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)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. One, housing is among the most potent political issues because it is both large and ubiquitous: it is usually the largest part of every family’s monthly budget, while the industry is also a big employer 30 in every single congressional district and state.

Advocacy 101
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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. It’s a subject we can learn a lot from and learn where we might be headed when implementing new laws. At this time the U.S.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

Social Pinpoint

One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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