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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," 2023 -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let the city/county own the cultural facility, while you operate it (San Francisco and the Fillmore Heritage Center) ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: Baltimore and the Area 405 Studio ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," (..)

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And there are some examples of arts focused CDCs in the US that are very good including Playhouse Square District Development Corporation in Cleveland and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust which operate on a large scale, and smaller groups.

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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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How federal agencies can use IPAs to bolster evidence capacity and help implement the Evidence Act: An interview with Dayanand Manoli, Professor, Georgetown University – Episode #178

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

He’s an economist and a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and has collaborated with the IRS on several research projects, as we highlighted on this podcast in 2016.

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Did American Investors Believe Evergrande would be China’s Lehman Moment?

The Lowe Down

On September 22 nd , 2021, Chinese real estate giant Evergrande failed to meet a coupon deadline totaling $83 million of bond interest payments. Evergrande has become highly leveraged through this strategy, with firm liabilities totaling 2 trillion RMB ($287 billion) in 2021 equaling 2% of China’s GDP. . Article by Katie Chen.

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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. Methodology. Research Questions.

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