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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the DOJ paper: The research produced an alternative interpretation of the link between disorder and crime, one that sees many elements of disorder as part and parcel of crime itself.

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Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

The Lowe Down

Figure 1 displays the growth in business applications in each state from 2012-2020, where one can observe the varying growth in business applications across the United States. From 2012 to 2020, Wyoming and Mississippi had the largest annual growth in new business applications while North Dakota and Kansas had the lowest.

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AAPI: Anti-Asian Violence & Discrimination (with Janelle Wong)

Policy Chats

From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

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AAPI: Anti-Asian Violence & Discrimination (with Janelle Wong)

Policy Chats

From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

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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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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. I had a front-row seat into the harms of auctioning off tax-foreclosed properties , particularly low-value residential properties, but thought, what could be done?

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Since the 2020 election, over half of the states in the US have changed election laws. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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