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

Center for Community Progress

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. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)

Policy Chats

His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics.

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2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)

Policy Chats

His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. Ben Bishin on the topic of the future of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterm election cycle. Guest: Ben Bishin (UCR Professor of Political Science).

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Policy Minute: Exclusionary Zoning

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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

Public Policy Blog

Later, Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas, R-Midland, determined Brown’s comments “violated the decorum of the House”, said Ari Adler, spokesman for the Republican majority. Image: Washington Post. Following the *audacity* that Rep. Brown used a biological, anatomical, even “medical” [gasp!]