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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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The importance of chronicling presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

The Partnership formally launched its Center for Presidential Transition in 2016, and since then, we have sought new ways to engage the public, presidential candidates and their teams about this critical but often taken-for-granted process.

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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education. Providing all Singaporeans with seamless access to skills development resources.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We need him to work with community advocates to pass citywide policies that prioritize low-income housing and opt the 2nd District into the mixed-income neighborhood overlay, which would require housing developers to ensure 20% of their units are affordable. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows (..)

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. It's called ZAP and it covers three areas: the Hogle Zoo, Parks both the County system and projects by the various cities, and funding for cultural organizations. I don't know if other jurisdictions elsewhere in Utah have done the same.)

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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). 2020; Preston & Reina, 2021) compared public housing authorities to private landlords in individual markets. One study (Gromis et al.,

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5

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