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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

The government land banks’ ability to transact these properties is more regulated and less flexible when it comes to property disposition compared to private-entity transactions. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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Implications and Geography of Office to Housing Conversions

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The regulation targeted buildings built before 1961 in these districts and buildings built before 1977 in Lower Manhattan. CBC also found that office-to-residential conversions using 421-g created 12,865 units—over 40 percent of the growth in housing units in lower Manhattan between 1990 and 2020.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Mayor’s Order 2020-054 (District residents must "stay in their residences except to perform essential activities, engage in essential business, provide or obtain government services, or engage in certain authorized recreational activities not involving close contact with other persons"); N.Y. Dashiell , 195 Md. 677, 689, 75 A.2d See Scott v.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome.

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