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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. I don't remember the exact definition. And my neighborhood was the first.

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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.

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The Value of Community Engagement?

zencity

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.