Sentences with phrase «of urban policy»

As a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of MIT's Center for Real Estate, his work is at the confluence of urban policy and city - making and the factors that drive real estate markets.

Improving the Study of Urban Policy through Visualization: A Study of Real Estate Ownership in Urban Neighborhoods J. Freire (School of Engineering and NYU Courant), V. Been (NYU School of Law), and I. Gould Ellen (NYU Wagner)

But now, as developers rush to build new, market - rate apartments in cities big and small, some local officials are considering inclusionary zoning for the first time, while others seek to add teeth to existing programs, said Erika Poethig, director of urban policy initiatives at the Urban Institute.

Weicher is currently director of urban policy studies at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

The attractiveness of cities is one of the key issues on the agenda of urban policy planners in Japan and beyond:

«In California, state law and local rules make it challenging for districts to reward their best teachers and remove their worst teachers,» said Dominic Brewer, a professor of urban policy the USC Rossier School.

Foley campaign spokesman Mark McNulty replied: «The urban policy agenda released today is largely drawn from the work of the Connecticut Policy Institute, a think tank Tom Foley founded and he has said from start would be the foundation of his urban policy agenda.»

Last year, Wagner students took on a handful of urban policy issues.

Goldsmith was a Republican star in the late 1990s, a pillar of George W. Bush's «compassionate conservatism» approach in the form of a Republican who really cared about the details of urban policy.

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Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Stpolicy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American StPolicy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

A study from the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center found that, in 2018, the top one percent of earners would get an average tax savings of $ 51,140, and the top 0.1 percent would get $ 193,380.

Perhaps the most damning of the new reports came from the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution's Tax Policy Center.

A tax cut on pass - through entities would likely benefit the most successful enterprises, said Gleckman of Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

«These would be LGFVs deemed most financially stretched by the authorities, and consist mostly of lower - tier (non-provincial) LGFVs, particularly those that mix commercial with policy activities, such as property with urban development,» said Fitch.

As a result, it often appears to prioritise the role of national policies which strategically coordinate urban development at the national level.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

The cost of the credits to the federal government makes them controversial, however, says Joseph Rosenberg, senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan tax group run by the Urban Institute and Brookings.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

Baltimore, meanwhile, offers more affordable real estate, a shovel - ready site at Port Covington, and an urban feel that suburban Prince George's County lacks, said Anirban Basu an economist and and CEO of Sage Policy Group in Baltimore.

The principal recommendation of this report was that Canadian governments must step up and collect the necessary data regarding foreign investment in order for policy - makers and the public to understand if foreign investment is playing a significant part in shaping urban real estate pricing and availability.

An Analysis of Donald Trump's Revised Tax Plan.Washington, DC: Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Washington, DC: Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, Pub.

Payments totaling an estimated $ 14.2 billion went to recipients of Social Security, supplemental security income, railroad retirement benefits, and veterans» disability compensation or pension benefits (Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center 2009h).

The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 extended most provisions of those three acts through 2012 (Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center 2010).

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

«I can't believe I have to say this, but incarceration is a traumatic experience,» says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute.

[2] Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan, «The Federal Reserve's semiannual monetary policy,» report before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate July 22, 1997.

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

The FHA percent share by dollar volume shot up in 2008 and 2009, according to the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:

The whole notion of earnings trapped offshore is misleading, Steven M. Rosenthal, a tax lawyer and senior fellow at the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Urban municipalities conference The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association held their annual general meeting at the end of November where they debated and adopted a series of new policies.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

The new cabinet is largely comprised of ministers from urban ridings, which means the government will have to make a concerted effort to ensure the importance of rural communities to the Canadian economy is properly reflected in their policies.

During his 41 years at Calvary Baptist, Barbour served on a variety of city policy - developing committees, including the Chester Water Board and the Citizens Council on Urban Renewal.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

«The belief that corruption is the important issue in the country is shared only by the minority living in urban areas and towns who have been beneficiaries of economic liberalization policies mandated by western countries.

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

Few can deny that the rising crime rate and abuse of drugs are related to the destruction of rural and urban communities that are the direct result of economic policies aimed at the one goal of increasing production.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

There must also be a reversal of the trend, dictated by urban growth and economic policies, to turn much of the best farmland into industrial and residential sites.

«[Agriculture] needs to become part of our culture again, we need to educate urban Australians on the challenges we have and we need to have government develop the right policy, preferably non-partisan and with length of tenure, to meet the roles required.»

This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to drive forward legislative and policy change and shape practice across the state.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

Obama announced that if he is elected president, the main thrust of his urban - poverty policy will be a billion - dollar initiative to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in twenty cities across the country.

A former inner - city high school teacher, Farrington left the classroom after 15 years to get a Ph.D. in urban - education policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Part of Santa Monica College's Second Annual Public Policy Institute Spring Symposium, on the topic: «Urban Youth: Fostering Success through GRIT.»