Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And an area of DC law that offered a way to oppose the entry -- the environmental impact law -- was underdeveloped, and those lawyers who were willing to oppose except for JOBS! But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! weren't sophisticated enough to follow that line of reasoning.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 16, 2021

It is well-established law that when a federal court reviews a federal agency's construction of a statute it administers, the court will look to whether Congress has addressed the precise question at issue. Second, in applying the same analysis to the two criteria, the BIA confused questions of law with questions of fact. In Amaya v.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 20, 2023

Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 17, 2021

The policy brief analyzes properties with various shares of rent stabilized units to understand whether the law had a differential impact on primarily rent stabilized properties. For these reasons, some argued prior to the law’s passage that the HSTPA would negatively impact building values in the short- and long-term.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

Land banks in Michigan are a flexible tool with unique powers granted to them in state law to return vacant properties to productive use as new homes, businesses, or greenspace through demolition, rehabilitation, and maintenance. What’s next for Michigan land banks? Turning abandoned properties into assets that benefit residents is expensive.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While not all states have mandatory recycling laws, whether for disposables or organic waste, most cities and counties have some sort of voluntary or required household recycling program, separate from requirements for commercial recycling. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent !

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Of course, the bigger cities, with homelessness, a propensity for vandalism, higher usage, low investment in facilities, and lack of attendants, have a problem in maintaining quality public facilities (" The Disappearing Public Toilet ," Seton Hall Law Review , 2020). Fancy restroom" in Bryant Park, New York City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

I hate to admit that I never did much of a literature search when I began development the "framework characteristics" pieces, starting first with Sacramento in 2014 (" An arena subsidy project I'd probably favor: Sacramento "). . == Academic writings. Some of the work supports my argument.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 For the seller, these costs are mostly the brokerage commission, long stuck in the 5 to 6 percent range, plus lawyer fees and a few small items. Behind a paywall.)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

24] The Council’s website goes on to state one key function for its activities: “To promote enactment of laws or regulations beneficial to, oppose laws or regulations detrimental to the FHLBanks, and obtain such research as is necessary for such promotion or opposition.”

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Despite attempts at openness, for example by passing laws about disclosure, secrecy has survived remarkably well, and it is strongly backed by Draconian libel and slander laws. Banfield, E.C.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019).

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