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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

You can then develop strategies to leverage those opportunities to maximize positive outcomes of the project while simultaneously mitigating risk. Using a participatory social research approach often employed in development contexts, SIA can identify deeper, richer information about the community than a traditional stakeholder analysis.

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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

160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.” 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income. Additionally, G.S. Note that G.S. 160A-456 and G.S.