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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S. In 2013, the General Assembly took a similarly restrictive approach when it wanted to remedy what it viewed as a defective 2011 reappraisal in Mecklenburg County. Population limits and similar restrictive criteria have been used in at least two property taxes bills.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. 4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. We did this in 2008 or 2009. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Since then, there’s been a flow of federalism or states’ rights cases heading to the Supreme Court, on a regular basis” (Bomboy, 2013). 2012, April). 2013, July 18). 2013, July 27). 2013, July 30). 2013, July 18). 2013, July 19). 2013, July 17). 2013, July 23). 2013, July 23).

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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. Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).

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