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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unfortunately, there are few examples of its implementation, as police departments did mostly "zero tolerance policing" calling it community policing. Broken windows successfully implemented on the NYC Subway in the early 1990s. communicate that it's okay to commit crime.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units. million units.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ". Purposeful neighborhood revitalization.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " The opportunity to rearticulate public safety delivery keeps being presented: Rochester New York " (2021) There is the broken windows approach. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany " (2019) A lot of academics criticize it, but I think they are missing the point.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent to 0.49

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% For example, it ranks 170th out of 180 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020.

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