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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to a new report by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, poverty, rates of people without health insurance, educational attainment, job opportunities and overcrowding all worsened in those neighborhoods between 2013 and 2021.

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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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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. percent range in the years prior to 2008, they now average around.50 After being in the 0.20 percent to 0.25

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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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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

that limit is $31,900 for 2022, meaning the circuit breaker income limit is $47,850 for 2022); and, Have lived in their home for at least 5 years. Without any exclusions or exemptions, Tina’s 2022 property tax bill would be $3,500. Under the circuit breaker, Tina’s 2022 tax bill would be $1,200. 4% of $30,000 is $1,200.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands. I don't know if some apartment buildings have high quality bike parking. Car sharing.