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Thanks Obama! (for saving my life)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Utah joined the program in 2019, not because the state government did the right thing, but because voters approved joining the program in a referendum vote in 2018 (" What is the Status of Medicaid Expansion in Utah?

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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

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. Transformational Projects Action Planning. What a waste. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019.

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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

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. We did this in 2008 or 2009. But definitely eater-tainment. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c. Contrast Eastern Market to most food halls.

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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)

Basic Definitions and Facts MH had a questionable reputation before it began an upgrade from its low-quality origins many decades ago. 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.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Another source of misleading conclusions, whether intended or not, is based upon selecting the recent pandemic-distorted period of time to compare prices, as seen in a 2021 Washington Post article, 19 where an example from 2019 to 2021, possibly the most rapidly increasing home price period in modern history, 20 is given.

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