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Are combination inspectors a good choice for municipalities?

American City & Country

Florida made legislative changes requiring buildings that are three stories or higher and more than 30 years old, to undergo a milestone inspection. The struggle is in the balancing act between safety, regulation and economic development, as well as the tendency for lessons learned from past disasters that fade with time.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). mortgage originations. Political is out, commercial is in.

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Lobbying my rep about the Move to Amend project

Librarian.net

“I’m an elected official in my town, Randolph Vermont, and I work all the local elections. On Wednesday I spoke to the assistant to my congressional representative’s assistant encouraging her to be a co-sponsor of the We the People amendment. I prepared remarks because otherwise I tend to go on.

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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. Growth vs. shrinking | young vs. old | urban vs. suburban | historic preservation vs. limited building regulation. Planners are the classic example of boundary spanners.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. State Legislatures: Power in general has been notoriously difficult to pin down at even a conceptual level.

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". road redesigns are always going to controversial and challenging in an urban landscape designed for, but now overwhelmed by, cars"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Interestingly, the local high school newspaper gets it even if elected officials and automobile dependent folks do not, " MOVE Culver City: Rethinking Urban Mobility in the Heart of Screenland ," Culver City High Centaurian. So some drivers can get to their destination two minutes faster. transit ," LAT. And maybe UDOT will buckle.