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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This paper examines the effects of UAC in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Tools like code enforcement systems and land banking that can help neighborhoods thrive must be implemented with racial equity in mind, or else they can just as easily perpetuate a broken status quo. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

From 2014 to 2021, Dawn led the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, where she spearheaded the exploration and implementation of emerging technologies to serve missions, and led the organization’s first restructure in its 57-year history. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

They deeply and fundamentally understand how to implement and utilize PBB, and their community has benefited tremendously from the city's continued and evolved implementation of PBB. Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget. A listing of all 2017 programs by quartile is included in the following section.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? Can cities step up and take a more direct, assertive, and agile role in this process?

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