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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Murphy, S., Proctor and J. Murray 2020.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. We should accept that we have disasters in the UK. Let us replace doctrine by 'plans' and 'procedures'.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. “This is a moment of ferment—and experimentation—in land use policy,” writes Noah M.

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