Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). John Kotter’s Eight Step Model for Leading Change It definitely shows lack of accountability and no sense of urgency to act -2,000 units could house at least 4,000 people. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

The definition of moderate income lists several factors to be considered, such as total income, family size, and cost of housing. No further definition is provided, so the 30% threshold may suffice. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.” The Housing Authorities Law, G.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

.” 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. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play. Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1993, and explaining the decline of public facilities and spaces in New York City, it made the point that instead of addressing the nuisance/noxious/criminal activities and consequences, instead deviance was redefined, redefinition once anti-community acts as acceptable.

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zencity

MAY 1, 2022

Access, by definition, is the means of approaching or entering a place. Idea board tools provide up-vote and down-vote features to allow participants to ‘vote’ on ideas they resonate with or feel may share, or not share, important value.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Bringing us back to the origin of the definition of the dichotomy, Wilson’s faith in the rule of experts is coupled with a profound distrust of republican self-government: “The bulk of mankind is rigidly unphilosophical, and nowadays the bulk of mankind votes.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

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).

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

First high definition television broadcast of the address also took place under George W. Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections. criminal code reform, the D.C.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

10] Making things even more complex, it is clear from the recent election campaign that Trump II will also look to support what is perhaps its biggest voting bloc: non-college-educated households, which argues against changes that may reduce the GSE’s role in providing subsidized, borrower-friendly mortgages to those households.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. From the article: In a classic 1980 essay called What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? ,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 13, 2025

A vote that would have eliminated the Department of Education failed to garner the needed 60 votes to pass in the Senate in 2023. It will definitely reduce office demand regardless. I'd say yes. Moving agencies and firing employees reduces the demand for office space and housing in DC proper. Uncertainty won't help either.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Our country is too divided to be able to make necessary changes to government structure, like the small state bias of the Senate and the existence of the Electoral College versus the popular vote for deciding the winner of the Presidential election. I have to believe my alternative would be better. Federal Inspector Generals.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Advocates for what may be the largest voting block supporting Trump II – non-college-educated households (“working families”) – who will seek to protect their access to the affordable GSE 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. [3] Nevertheless, there are definitely additional ways to obtain more savings.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2024

Utah joined the program in 2019, not because the state government did the right thing, but because voters approved joining the program in a referendum vote in 2018 (" What is the Status of Medicaid Expansion in Utah? Kaiser Family Foundation).

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

What this means is that we could see a joint budget resolution that delivers program-slashing instructions to the committees that initiate definitions of what programs in their area can and can’t do and the maximum agencies can spend on them. So Democrats don’t have their usual chance to block bills they object to.

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