Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice.

2008 52

2008 2016 2017 2020 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation 2011 Sustainability 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 By comparison, Iowa would charge just $175, i.e., at least 90 percent lower.

Housing 59

Housing Regulations 2007 Article 59