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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). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2018, 56 L. 731, 735 (2011)). In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” Dep't of Soc. 658, 694, 98 S. 2d 611 (1978).” The Monell claim was dismissed. at 287 (quoting Ashcroft v. al-Kidd , 563 U.S.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Racial Inequities in New York City’s Property Tax System

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Our 2011 State of the City report serves as a primer, explaining how these property taxes are calculated and revealing the potential for ongoing inequity in the city’s tax system. in Fiscal Year 2018 all Tax Class 1 properties were subject to a 20.919 percent tax).

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." From the article: According to a 2018 Johns Hopkins University study, every 10% increase where alcohol outlets were located, there was also a 4.2% DC did that in 2009.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures.