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How Street Vendors Finally Made Street Food Legal in California
Oct 4, 2022 · Los Angeles City Council did finally pass a motion to legalize and regulate street vendors in April 2018. Before it could be implemented, in September 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Safe Sidewalk Vending Act, sponsored by then-State Sen. Ricardo Lara. Ricardo Lara holds Caridad Vazquez shoulders as she talks.
Meet the Bill To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Single-Family …
Mar 28, 2024 · While the overall ownership of single-family homes by private equity remains relatively small, a 2022 report by MetLife estimated that by 2030, 7.6 million single-family rental homes in the United States—more than 40 percent—could be owned by corporate investors. According to a November report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) the estimate of 1.6 million housing units ...
History of Gentrification in America: A Timeline | Next City
1964. The term “gentrification” is coined by Ruth Glass. “One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class – upper and lower …. Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social ...
Five Ways Local Governments Can Spur Development of …
Jun 30, 2020 · Here are their five recommendations for creative ways to finance affordable housing. 1. Establish a housing finance agency. A housing finance agency (HFA) is a government entity designed to promote affordable housing by issuing tax-exempt bonds and using the proceeds from the sales to offer low-cost mortgages to affordable housing developers ...
Ranked: Walkability in the 30 Largest U.S. Metros - Next City
Jun 17, 2014 · Though the current rankings in Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros have a few mild surprises (Washington, D.C. tops the list, with New York and Chicago in second and fifth place, respectively), the chart in the report — by Christopher B. Leinberger and Patrick Lynch from the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington University ...
Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16 - Next City
Jul 20, 2020 · Any argument in favor of lowering the voting age starts with the fact that 16- and 17-year-olds are already seen as adults in several official ways. Currently 14 states and the District of Columbia let teens pre-register to vote at 16, while an additional nine states have opened pre-registration to 17-year-olds.
In These Cities, Car-Free Streets Are Here To Stay - Next City
Nov 21, 2022 · 34th Ave in New York City. Although not shut down to cars 24/7, one of the most successful car-free street projects is 34th Avenue (now known as “Paseo Park”) in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Currently, the street is car-free every day between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m, turning 26 city blocks into a de facto public park.
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Urbanist News. Next City goes beyond pithy headlines and sound bites, publishing original, in-depth features on urbanist news issues critical to our shared future. Our daily stories and in-depth feature articles, written by journalists from around the globe, span a wide range of topics, from transportation and infrastructure, to affordable ...
There Are 10,000 Cities on Planet Earth. Half Didn’t Exist 40 Years …
Feb 12, 2020 · Groundbreaking new mapping research released this week at World Urban Forum 10 concludes that there are around 10,000 cities worldwide — and as many followed Shenzhen’s trajectory as they did Rome’s. That startling fact is thanks to a four-year effort from the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...