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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. ” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes. Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

Advocacy 101
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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

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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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

In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013). Tool: Overcoming challenges to coordination of the group. Fully autonomous groups, however, encourage a lack of coordination and continuity (Tarrow, 1998).

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Is DC screwed economically because of Trump and the Republicans? Probably.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A vote that would have eliminated the Department of Education failed to garner the needed 60 votes to pass in the Senate in 2023. I don't know what the multiplier effect is for "paper pushers" (information coordination) versus doing jobs. He would need congressional approval in order to shut down an agency.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It did this by committing to vote its shares pro rata with how non-government investors voted, with only a very few specific exceptions, and to have an independent board supervise the company.]]