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Interactive digital media platforms impact on Canadians lives

Open Access Government - Technology News

More research, education, and sensible regulation are needed to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of interactive digital media to promote responsible use, safeguard Canadians’ health, and safeguard their well-being. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2018. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021. in 2013 to 16.8%

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Garforth 2021.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions. Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

in 2021 is $124,400 (average of single and double-wide, not including land). Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state. According to this month’s Census Bureau data , the average cost for a new manufactured house in the southern U.S.

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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 range for seven more years through 2021, as disclosed in each year’s annual FHFA G-fee report.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

14 A separate calculation by the Urban Institute, an MH supporter, from 2018 claims manufactured homes are 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built homes. without any qualification as to whether the underlying land is owned or rented), and how the evidence shows that, based on data from 1995 to 2018, it appreciated at 3.4

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But in recent years, California’s state government has stepped in to accelerate housing production by reforming zoning regulations, removing some of the red tape that has slowed production, and cracking down on localities that have historically resisted densifying. million units.

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