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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, we provide background on New York City’s housing market and recent policy developments that relate to heirs’ property and tangled titles. As a response to the city’s housing shortage, the City Council changed the ZR to allow for more housing development. The report proceeds as follows.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.