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The importance of chronicling presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

Seeking to preserve and strengthen this venerated tradition, the Partnership for Public Service has worked since 2008 to support transition teams and federal agencies in their work to execute the immense undertaking of sharing knowledge and preparing thousands of new federal leaders to help a new president succeed.

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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

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. 2016); Saathoff v. 2016); Maldonado v. 2008); San Jose Charter of Hells Angels v. Mays , 18 F.4th 4th 283 (8th Cir. See Mayfield v.

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Chevron Deference Does Not Always Result in Support for the Government's Position

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

19-1619, 2021 WL 232554 (4th Cir. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *1. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *4. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *6. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *7. 2016) ("Because the BIA decision relied on Matter of E-A-G- [24 I. In Amaya v. Rosen , No. 208, 221 (B.I.A. Particularity is a question of law.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 Of total new MH units placed during 2021, 30.5%

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