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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But DC Government shows a lot that it's management capacity is weak. Baldwin Apartments on H Street NE; 37 apartments, 100% affordable, over ground floor retail and building amenities. It hasn’t gone as planned ," Washington Post , " Mayor Bowser meets with Connecticut Ave. tenant leaders ," Forest Hills Connection).

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Michigan’s first land bank was founded in 2002 as the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council (now the Genesee County Land Bank ) by Dan Kildee , who later went on to be one of the cofounders and first president of the Center for Community Progress.

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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

Federalism, the contrarily named power-sharing agreement between the central [national] government and the state governments has been debated in various forms in courts through our country. Image: Wikipedia.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Geospatial data, including many climate and weather datasets, are often released by government and nonprofit organizations in compressed file formats such as the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) or GRIdded Binary (GRIB). NetCDF data can be stored as chunks within a file, enabling parallel reads and writes on different chunks.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929).

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