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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

New York City zoning laws require minimum off-street parking in many areas, which often results in an oversupply of parking spaces where market demand for off-street parking is relatively low. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Getting Ready for Grants, Part 3: Writing Compliance into Your Programs

ResourceAssociates

These documents relate to the instructions, rules and regulations connected to a grant award: The Request for Proposal. 45 CFR 75.113 – Disclosures re: Violations of Criminal Law. Auditors use their own regulations to test grant expenditures for compliance and assess risk. Grant Application. HHS Grants Policy Statement.

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The Importance of Thoroughly Screening Election Poll Workers

American City & Country

At the heart of our democracy, election poll workers serve as the guardians of the voting process. A proven track record with following local, state, and federal CRA (Consumer Reporting Agency) laws and regulations. Sterling is not a law firm. How quickly can they return results? What kind of checks should you consider?

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play.

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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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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The piece picks up “a little dust up” about the interpretation of the regulations that permit the handling of fresh fruit, specifically oranges and bananas, in US childcare facilities. The burden of the story is whether or not the regulations require a facility to have at least six sinks in their kitchen to be able to handle fresh fruit.