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Maximizing Underused Hospital-Owned Land for Affordable Housing

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Alongside that, strict regulation of hospitals and the use of hospital beds will make planning for phased redevelopment tricky. But changing zoning in New York City is a complicated, expensive, and political process.

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Lobbying my rep about the Move to Amend project

Librarian.net

Legal privileges for businesses, even non-profits, are subject to the political process already in place. Nearly one fifth of Vermont towns have passed resolutions at town meeting (over a decade ago) affirming that they feel money is not speech and corporations are not people.

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