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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011).

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Field 2018). For example, work by Marulana et al.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

LULC datasets like this provide users with the ability to measure changes over time and inform critical decision makers in governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), finance, and industry who need trustworthy, actionable information about the changing world. The Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease (SEA-AD) Study.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, in mid-2008, the market began to lose confidence in the implied guarantee given its informal and unwritten nature. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9] government (i.e., trillion amount.