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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post has an article, " D.C.’s Chevy Chase Community Center, Washington, DC. Baldwin Apartments on H Street NE; 37 apartments, 100% affordable, over ground floor retail and building amenities.

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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

Article by Abizer Mamnoon and Anahitha Gopikumar Ontario Airport (ONT), located east of downtown Ontario in San Bernardino County, is the geographically closest airport to the Claremont Colleges. In retort, Los Angeles stated that the significant loss in business resulted from the 2008 recession rather than administrative negligence.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Alexander, D.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. percent range in the years prior to 2008, they now average around.50 After being in the 0.20 percent to 0.25

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

USA Today reports that some bankruptcy experts have predicted that Detroit’s case could last as long as three years [a large Californian case in Vallejo took one year to decide if it was even ELIGIBLE for bankruptcy in 2008 then another three years to be released from bankruptcy protection granted]. Retrieved from [link]. Miller, Mark.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Baltimore Regional Transit Expansion Map, 2002. Now everything I wrote was rejected because it was at the peak of the post-2008 recession, and the planners were ordered to omit "any recommendations that cost money." Had I known that at the time, I would have suggested that too.