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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " For a lot of "urban problems" the issue isn't knowledge about what to do, but willingness to engage that knowledge " (2017) DC has Inspector Generals and an Auditor who reports to Council. But again, the Executive Branch doesn't seem to want to engage with it, and the Council doesn't push.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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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)

During the study period, answering rates—or the rate at which tenants appeared in response to court filing—increased dramatically throughout the city, likely due to citywide outreach and tenant engagement. However, the study did not find a significant difference in answering rates in UAC ZIP Codes. Background. Research Questions.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, now it's slated for closure. -- " A positive deviance failure in Boston: Timilty Middle School ," 2022 What an incredible waste. Like my frustration with DC Government. After two terms, eight years, the reelected mayor is looking for innovative ideas? -- " I can't help but laugh.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). This is particularly unfortunate as there is immense scope to generate more community engagement. link] (accessed 21 October 2022).

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Identifying community development loans requires many internal stakeholders within the bank and this episode highlights a solid approach to engage commercial lenders in identifying loans that are hidden within their portfolios and their loan pipelines. Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2. Social Marketing 3.