Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 4, 2023
Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 24, 2024
Items like vegetation and Parley's Creek were not covered thoroughly in the most recent (2008) master plan update process. In the US, it's used most often for creating management plans for National and State Heritage Areas, which can cover hundreds of square miles and hundreds of separately owned cultural resources.
The Lowe Down
MAY 14, 2023
By examining cargo volume, domestic and international passenger traffic, and the resulting financial implications, we show that the Ontario Airport has performed significantly better under local management. Until the recession, LA County managed ONT well and 0.26% more passengers were arriving at ONT every month.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Like F&F prior to 2008, the FHLBanks hold themselves out as competitive commercial enterprises, but the truth is that they also are not.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MARCH 11, 2020
US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. UK Government 2008.
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