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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Positive impacts of land banks in Michigan All across the country, land banks have documented positive benefits for the communities they serve. Between 2009-18, the Calhoun and Kalamazoo County land banks created at least 286 full time jobs in construction, lawn care, and property maintenance. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Nine | Second stage planning for parks using the cultural landscape framework

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While detailed, they are examples of more simplified planning documents. Items like vegetation and Parley's Creek were not covered thoroughly in the most recent (2008) master plan update process. or Millennium Park ( 2009 Rudy BRuner Award: Silver Medal winner ) in Chicago. Burgess Park, Southwark, London.

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Predicting diabetic patient readmission using multi-model training on Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

AWS Public Sector Blog

Approximately 33% of all health care spending in 2009 went to hospital care. This solution uses the UCI Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 dataset , from which we’ll extrapolate data insights with machine learning. Upload the UCI Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 dataset to the Amazon S3 bucket.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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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

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).