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Maximizing Underused Hospital-Owned Land for Affordable Housing

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But changing zoning in New York City is a complicated, expensive, and political process. Healthcare facilities will need to work to reduce carbon emissions in order to comply with Local Law 97 requirements and carefully plan how to do so in the context of their portfolios. Finally, sustainability is a major consideration.

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ELECTION LAW:  Federal District Court Judge Orders Georgia Lawmakers to Redraw Congressional Map for the 2024 Election

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

ELECTION LAW: Federal District Court Judge Orders Georgia Lawmakers to Redraw Congressional Map for the 2024 Election Anne B. Accordingly, the federal court concluded that despite the fact that Black voters have more opportunities, "the political process is not equally open to Black voters."

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The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

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In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. Enabling communities to make informed decisions and be genuinely heard in political processes is also a powerful way to minimize raw and uninformed public opinion. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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28 April 2017 | The Role of the Pubic Administrators and Some Implications to Our Programs, By Stuart Bretschneider*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

While I believe that schisms in the Republican Party make this more problematic than that, from an institutional perspective we still have the system of Courts and Laws that slow down any such process of change. Some of my colleagues have argued that because the President’s party controls Congress, Trump is more likely to succeed.