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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In recent years, New York State enacted the Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act (UPHPA) and the transfer-on-death deed (TODD) law, expanding protections for heir owners and creating an important tool to streamline estate planning and prevent tangled title issues (more detail on both laws follows).

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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. This substantial base of wealth provides ample resources for funding campaign donations or other political support at generous levels. 34 This expansion of the definition by the CFPB is referenced in a recent notice to the public. financial markets (e.g.,

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is divided among the remaining family members, or heirs. One of the most challenging vacant properties to resolve? Heirs’ property. What is “heirs’ property”?

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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

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. So a blog entry is better. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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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

Social Media Definitions. By being able to connect with each other and share the stories and accounts, citizen journalists are learning that “the ‘sphere of legitimate debate” as defined by journalists doesn’t match up with their own definition” (Rosen, 2009). 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008).

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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias. The campaign would definitely raise the profile of law, Constitutional Law, and the federal criminal justice system. I have to believe my alternative would be better.

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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 24th

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I finally finished reading The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks (" How did our national parks come to be? See for Yourself ," New York Times , " Tourists Heeding Utah's 'Mighty 5' Campaign Overpower Moab ," Wall Street Journal , " Utah Wanted All the Tourists. I haven't tracked it down yet.