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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” Housing Authorities Law.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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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

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

reminds me of an idea I've had for 17 or so years, making the federal Attorney General an executive office elected official with the agency and its reporting agencies like the FBI, independent of the President. The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias.

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Elections

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The election results seem to reduce that likelihood significantly. The casino referendum lost again, even though it had the support of most elected officials and stakeholders like unions and the NAACP (" Richmond voters reject a casino for the second time ," NBC12). Richmond, Virginia.