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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). This must be stronger than factionalism in the constituent population. I need not repeat them here. Disaster subcultures.

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Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

They’ll cover topics such as employee and constituent engagement, artificial intelligence, data use and literacy, cybersecurity, diversity and inclusion, and more. She is originally from New York City but is happily adapting to life at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s San Francisco hub.

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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)

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). No small feat. Not a West Wing fan? Look out world. Why or why not?