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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

We're focusing on this today, thanks to a powerful new comptroller's review in New Jersey that points to the municipalities in that state's failure to comply with laws pertaining to leave, "leading to both actual waste and abuse of public funds, as well as substantial future liabilities for these municipalities.”.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. Where have CLTs been established?

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. What the heck is a land bank ?”

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Child Nutrition School Breakfast Program Expansion Grant for U.S. States and the District of Columbia

iGrantWriters

In this instance, the term State agency means 1) the State educational agency; and 2) any other agency of the State which has been designated by the Governor or other appropriate executive or legislative authority of the State and approved by USDA to administer the above-mentioned program.

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School Breakfast Program Expansion Grant for U.S. Territories

iGrantWriters

Territories that administer the School Breakfast Program or provide any other school breakfast to students and have been designated by the Governor or other appropriate executive or legislative authority of the State and approved by USDA to administer such program. In this instance, the following U.S. Territories.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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How will the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme change in April 2023?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Take social media as an example – where we were referring to using such platforms in hours per month in 2010, the average user today now spends 2 hours and 27 minutes of their day on them. At the same time, Utah and Connecticut will introduce new data laws this year. Digitalisation has played no small part in this changing dynamic.

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