Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.”

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Policy Chats

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this episode, Mayor of Palm Springs Grace Garner talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about housing afforability, income disparities, and gentrification in the context of Palm Springs. So if we can get that down to a more reasonable rent based on a person's income, then that would help a lot.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the hotel industry in New York City, policymakers considered whether to promote the reuse of distressed hotel buildings as housing. In a new white paper , the NYU Furman Center’s Noah Kazis details essential background information on the matter of hotel-to-housing conversions.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Citing this data and its desire to broaden housing opportunities for residents receiving the federal vouchers, the City enacted an ordinance that made it an unlawful discriminatory practice for a landlord to use "any requirement of a public assistance program as a motivating factor" to refuse to sell, rent, or lease real property.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. What the heck is a land bank ?”

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Policy Chats

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Previously, she has served as a board member of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry, was the Chief Operating Officer at Americans for Financial Reform, and was an Attorney Case Manager at White & Case LLP. So if we can get that down to a more reasonable rent based on a person's income, then that would help a lot.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2023 so far, at least 27 states and territories have pursued more than 80 bills related to AI, including legislation to study, restrict or prohibit its use. A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence. Among other objectives, the working group will make recommendations for additional AI legislation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Projects relying on the 421-a completion extension in tandem with Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) are expected to deliver both more housing and deeper affordability to several neighborhoods across the city, according to a recent data analysis by the NYU Furman Center.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. Identify untapped market potential to build stronger housing markets. The state auditor’s new understanding of this much-needed reform allowed Bennet and her colleagues to move forward authoring new property tax sale legislation. Couldn’t join us?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Development of new housing and retail is happening even outside of the city core, albeit mostly centered around subway stations (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Takoma, U Street), but even in a couple areas (14th Street, H Street) where subway access is tangential. U Street NW. Revival spreads beyond the city core.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

They can be very helpful: Using artificial intelligence (AI), ADM systems assist or replace human efforts to make potentially life-altering decisions related to public benefits, policing, housing, health care, immigration, education, emergency response, child welfare and other concerns. According to a recent survey, 70% of U.S.

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Policy Chats

MAY 25, 2023

Learn more about Sharon Oselin via [link] [link] Podcast Highlights: “With growing public awareness and legislators' awareness about some of the harms of mass incarceration in particular.

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Policy Chats

MAY 25, 2023

Learn more about Sharon Oselin via [link] [link] Podcast Highlights: “With growing public awareness and legislators' awareness about some of the harms of mass incarceration in particular.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the past few years, there have been several bills, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), that have significantly increased the federal share of infrastructure funding for the first time in decades.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recently, Maine became the 13 th state , plus the District of Columbia, to adopt legislation guaranteeing paid family and medical leave for residents. And with a wave of interest in supporting workers’ rights, it won’t be the last state or territory to adopt universal paid leave legislation.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. Housing-Related Exemptions Builders inventory ( G.S. Low- & moderate-income housing ( G.S.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. One idea proposed by housing advocates is to modify the “circuit breaker” residential tax exclusion so that it benefits more taxpayers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms. Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Further, we’re seeing similar moves being made by other professional advisory and legislative bodies across the globe that are equally raising their expectations of organisations in deploying appropriate technical measures. At the same time, Utah and Connecticut will introduce new data laws this year.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction The United States is in the midst of a severe shortage of affordable housing for low-and-middle-income (LMI) families as both home prices and rents have climbed faster than household income for many years, particularly during the pandemic. with a much higher market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition to housing issues, many tenants have been left unemployed either temporarily or permanently due to damage or destruction of businesses. Such assistance is in part meant to deter further displacement and loss of housing following a natural disaster. The rental of residential housing is an act that affects commerce.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this. So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article. At the same time, for a city, preservation is pretty cheap.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 2, 2023

The legislation, H.R. 3746, passed the House on May 31 and the Senate on June 1. The legislation must be signed into law by […] Source President Biden and Speaker McCarthy reached a debt limit deal Memorial Day weekend, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. It is now on its way to the President’s desk.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court. These will each be explained in more detail below.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Across the country, policymakers are dealing with the impact of exclusionary zoning practices that have created barriers to housing supply and restricted access to high-opportunity neighborhoods for low-income families. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 percent to 19.2

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance. This letter to the editor (" The D.C. I proudly wear my “51” hat.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

Under current law, SSDI recipients may try to reenter the workforce for a year, if they earn no more than $1,170 a month or a bit more than that if they’re blind. These have been issues on progressive policy agendas for a long time — and the former for the hardly progressive House Speaker Ryan.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. Local government must designate itself as a housing authority. No referendum is required for cities.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.

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