article thumbnail

CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

Housing 81
article thumbnail

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: the role of common misconceptions. Alexander, D.E.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). Safe routes to school programs. It has since been significantly improved.

article thumbnail

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell 2010, p. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,