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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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CIL reprint: Your Digital Life After You

Librarian.net

This article was originally published in Computers in Libraries magazine in 2017. When my father died six years ago, we were pleased to find a Google Document with the usernames and passwords to every account he ?owned? Dropbox deals with deceased users’ files on a case-by-case basis, and requires documentation to provide access.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In the past couple years, several rigorous studies have documented the growth of these nonprofit funding groups, across numerous service delivery areas. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Examining the Revenue Distribution of Tax-Exempt Development Organizations among U.S. Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions. Hence, 'community' is about influence. Banfield, E.C. Barrios, R.E.

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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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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