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Housing Choice – Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers
“Our members are saying that if we can’t get a very large tax credit — one that really brings people off the bench — why use our political capital at all?” said David Crowe, the chief economist for the home … Continue reading
Our Towns – In Age of Bedbugs, Other Bugs Pose Wider Threat
Ash trees make up 7 percent of the trees in New York State and about 10 percent of the hardwoods. via Our Towns – In Age of Bedbugs, Other Bugs Pose Wider Threat – NYTimes.com.
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Food Trucks and Public Space
Los Angeles is no stranger to street food or food trucks, but the new gourmet food truck trend is popularizing a historically low profile industry. Much like the food guilds of post revolutionary France, restauranteurs today are wary of the … Continue reading
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Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the Great Recession – NYTimes.com
In the late 1970s, the richest 1 percent of American families took in about 9 percent of the nation’s total income; by 2007, the top 1 percent took in 23.5 percent of total income. Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the … Continue reading
478 – The Shotgun Tracts of the Lower Mississippi | Strange Maps | Big Think
at least in New Orleans, is that it derived from a local tax on lot frontage. Such a tax, payable pro rata to the street-side width of a property, would have encouraged taxpayers to creative narrow-mindedness when building their house … Continue reading
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Cities with the highest ratio of public housing
Boston – 14,000 units – 5.5% of housing units New York – 178,554 units – 5.4% of housing units Baltimore – 10,000 units – 3.4% of housing units Minneapolis – 5,800 units – 3.3% of housing units Oakland – 3,308 … Continue reading
World Trade Center Was Influenced by Islamic Architecture
“Yamasaki replicated the plan of Mecca’s courtyard by creating a vast delineated square, isolated from the city’s bustle by low colonnaded structures and capped by two enormous, perfectly square towers — minarets, really,” architect Laurie Kerr wrote in Slate in … Continue reading