Download or read book Building Communities and New Markets for the New Century written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Communities and New Markets for the New Century written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This consolidated report outlines what HUD delivered to America's communities in 1998. It also updates through 1999 HUD's activities in a number of priority areas and previews the coming year with highlights of HUD's 2000 budget. Shows that the resources HUD invested in communities and the steps HUD took to reinvent itself in 1998 have yielded significant results. Sections: HUD's performance, customer service, and a commitment to our mission; creating jobs and livable communities; affordable housing; expanding prosperity and economic opportunity; homeownership; fair housing; and headquarters and regional offices.
Download or read book The Art of Community written by Jono Bacon and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You'll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force. The Art of Community will help you: Develop a strategy, with specific objectives and goals, for building your community Build simple, non-bureaucratic processes to help your community perform tasks, work together, and share successes Provide tools and infrastructure that let contributors work quickly Create buzz around your community to get more people involved Track the community's work so it can be optimized and simplified Explore a capable, representative governance strategy for your community Identify and manage conflict, including dealing with divisive personalities
Download or read book Urban Research Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third Pillar written by Raghuram Rajan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization. Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central bank, and author of the 2010 FT-Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point onto the social and economic consequences of globalization and their ultimate effect on our politics. In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how these three forces--the state, markets, and our communities--interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane. The "third pillar" of the title is the community we live in. Economists all too often understand their field as the relationship between markets and the state, and they leave squishy social issues for other people. That's not just myopic, Rajan argues; it's dangerous. All economics is actually socioeconomics - all markets are embedded in a web of human relations, values and norms. As he shows, throughout history, technological phase shifts have ripped the market out of those old webs and led to violent backlashes, and to what we now call populism. Eventually, a new equilibrium is reached, but it can be ugly and messy, especially if done wrong. Right now, we're doing it wrong. As markets scale up, the state scales up with it, concentrating economic and political power in flourishing central hubs and leaving the periphery to decompose, figuratively and even literally. Instead, Rajan offers a way to rethink the relationship between the market and civil society and argues for a return to strengthening and empowering local communities as an antidote to growing despair and unrest. Rajan is not a doctrinaire conservative, so his ultimate argument that decision-making has to be devolved to the grass roots or our democracy will continue to wither, is sure to be provocative. But even setting aside its solutions, The Third Pillar is a masterpiece of explication, a book that will be a classic of its kind for its offering of a wise, authoritative and humane explanation of the forces that have wrought such a sea change in our lives.
Download or read book Homing Devices written by Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the results of two conferences ... : an invited session at the 2001 American Anthropological Association meetings, and a mini-conference and planning session at the African American Studies Program of the University of Florida in 2002."--Preface.
Download or read book Hidden in Plain Sight written by Peter J. Wallison and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis. A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 58 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or other low-quality mortgages. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis. After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.
Download or read book New Markets written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing the American Dream written by William M. Rohe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans? This book provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership policies and goals.
Download or read book Public Administration and Disability written by Julie Ann Racino and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on decades of evidence-based research and technical assistance, Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US brings together the diverse, expert perspectives and discusses the leading efforts of the past three decades in the field of disability and community services. The book highlights the development of
Download or read book Holistic Disaster Recovery written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an all-purpose handbook on how to build sustainability into a community during the recovery period after a disaster. It has background information, practical descriptions, and ideas about what sustainability is, why it is a good for a community, and how it can be applied during disaster recovery to help create a better community. The book is intended to be used by local officials, staff, activists, and the disaster recovery experts who help the community during disaster recovery -- including state planners, emergency management professionals, mitigation specialists, and others. It is geared mainly toward small to medium-sized communities.
Download or read book Programs in Aid of the Poor written by Sar A. Levitan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," launching a variety of new antipoverty programs and enhancing existing ones. This war is still being fought. But with what success? And at what cost? Incorporating new data from the 2000 census, the eighth edition of Programs in Aid of the Poor provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of current federal programs aimed at alleviating poverty in the United States. The authors focus on programs that offer cash support, provide goods and services to poor people, address the well-being of children and youth, prepare young people to earn above-poverty incomes, and offer adults a second chance to earn their way out of poverty. They also discuss the definition of poverty, identify who the poor are, and generalize the causes of poverty. "To an extent," the authors find, "we have prosecuted our war against poverty the way Senator George Aiken of Vermont advised that we do in Vietnam: 'Declare victory and go home.' Yet the war against poverty has not been abandoned. Skirmishes continue, with widely fluctuating commitment." Co-authors Garth and Stephen Mangum and Andrew Sum have also prepared a companion volume, The Persistence of Poverty in the United States, analyzing the underlying causes of poverty and its persistence in America.
Download or read book A Right to Housing written by Rachel Bratt and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people? What can we do about the problem? In this important new work leading progressive housing activists and thinkers examine the state of housing, the housed, and housing policy in the United States and then provide a comprehensive and detailed program for solving the problem, under the goal of a Right to Housing.
Download or read book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Learning for the Workplace of the New Millennium written by Eleni Roulis and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a comprehensive curriculum package for grades 11-14. It will help develop partnerships between business organizations and educational institutions to create and implement effective school-to-career programs that prepare work-ready and career-bound students. Special Features: A guide to secondary classroom instruction, worksite induction, and cross-discipline coordination. Detailed lesson plans are developmentally sequenced through the entirety of the curriculum. Hands-on activities are developed that students, parents, and teachers will find exciting. Consists of four parts--Preparing for the Voyager Program; The Classroom and Workplace Experience; The Roles and Responsibilities of all Stakeholders; and Voices from the Next Generation: Critical Workers and Learners-which can also be purchased separately.
Download or read book Consolidated Report written by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2001 written by Executive Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes present the Budget Message of the President & information on his budget proposals. The report also contains detailed information on the various appropriations & funds, & highlights significant presentations of data. Statistics are provided for the following: budget receipts, outlays, & surpluses or deficits over an extended time period.
