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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. By contrast, the median citywide assessed value of single-family houses built 2007 or later on unsubdivided parcels was $545,000.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)

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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

That is to implement (or reverse) socio-cultural changes are closely tied to a variety of feelings and emotions that are themselves closely intertwined with that their identity is in direct conflict with politically and emotionally. 2007) Limiting dissent: The mechanisms of state repression in the United States. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, J.