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6 ways to make San Francisco housing affordable

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6 ways to make San Francisco housing affordable
Protect the city's existing rent-controlled housing stock: One way to do this is to discourage abuse of the Ellis Act, the state law that allows landlords to evict tenants in order to exit the rental business. A proposed reform would require landlords …
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Boeing bid sparks rail access talks at PTI
(NYSE: BA) was to build a plant, according to state public records obtained by The Business Journal. The rail access options were part of a larger proposal submitted by Greensboro officials in December that included millions of dollars worth of free …
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Google Publishes Full Agreement With EU
Last week, the EU announced that it had obtained “an improved commitments proposal” from Google over the three-year antitrust probe into the company's search business. … Google has now come out, and offered a statement on its European policy blog.
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Bill de Blasio Appoints Members of Housing 'Dream Team'

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SnT 2013 Awards Ceremony – Friday, 21 June

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Lassina Zerbo (centre), Project Executive for the CTBT: SnT2013 Conference and Executive Secretary-elect of the CTBTO, presented the award for best young scientist to Ole Ross of the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), which was received on his behalf by Andreas Becker (right) of the German Meteorological Service.

Bill de Blasio Appoints Members of Housing 'Dream Team'
Mr. Rodney, meanwhile, is currently the executive vice president for development of Omni New York, which finances community-based affordable housing projects, and previously worked at HDC in the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations. This post was …
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St. Louis commission approves TIF help for Ikea
As Ikea said in December when announcing the project, the store will have two floors of retail space on piers over a parking level that, combined with surface parking, will hold 1,250 vehicles. Reed Lyons, an Ikea real estate manager, said Friday the …
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Lawmakers look to Cover Oregon fixes
Ever since a disastrous attempted upgrade of the computer systems at the state's Department of Motor Vehicles in the mid-1990s, there has been a policy that requires quality assurance review of every project under the executive branch, overseeing the …
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Malanje Housing Project to Start in 2014

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Malanje Housing Project to Start in 2014
"The housing project programmes to be carried, whose objective is the implementation until 2016 of 200 houses for each municipality, has been redefined and there is more rigour in its execution, so it is a great concern of the government the definition …
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EDITORIAL: Citizen passivity a real threat to democracy
But when the citizens were told one day that the plan was ready for execution, they began to question not only the project itself, but also the process by which it had been decided. A referendum ensued, but the focus was not on whether the road should …
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TAKE 5: Planning official gives update on bond projects
The city wants to execute the projects with the least amount of waste and disruption. Staff is currently working closely with third parties at the outset and creating a detailed execution plan that accounts for project overlap to ensure project, time …
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American Classic Argent
American Classic got its start in the 1980's, a project of bike-racer-turned-engineer, Bill Shook. This editor remembers them pushing …. It appears as though American Classic is using a pinned rim rather than a welded rim, which would help to explain …
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