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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Road Witch was a campaign in England 20+ years ago, focusing on rebalancing the use to streets toward residents, not automobiles. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Toronto Star "Can't We Do Better" series: Rampant Municipal Management Failure #3

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence " -- " Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority) " The Toronto Star is running a series of articles in advance of the Mayor and City Council election this, Monday October 24th, called " Can't We Do Better? "

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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)

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.

Advocacy 101
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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. Campaign flyers for the Bring Chicago Home referendum at a march to the polls event March 9, 2024, in Chicago.

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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People

Poverty & Policy

Safe, stable housing that leaves enough income to help pay for other needs. The Trump budget would deny affordable housing to more than 250,000 of the country’s lowest-income individuals and families who could otherwise have vouchers to cover all but 30% of their income for rent.

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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

Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). No small feat. Not a West Wing fan? Look out world.