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When the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed, we started looking into the social media discourse following the collapse. Usual suspects such as political mud-slinging and conspiracy theories ('How come Biden visited the city the same day the bridge collapsed?') were, of course, present. However, we noticed a rare set of social media posts that were talking about which other bridges people were worried about that could collapse. In our WWW-2024 Web-for-Good paper (joint work with Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury, Soumyajit Datta, and Naveen Sharma), we investigate if there exists a consistent human behavioral pattern where people discuss potential future failure points following a structural failure. We present infrastructure ombudsman, a social web listening tool that identifies public concerns around bridges and buildings. Buildings and bridges that are yet to collapse, but citizens worry that they might. If we can detect these concerns and channel them to appropriate authorities, experts will be able to determine if such concerns are valid and take appropriate actions. Disaster response studies typically focus on the immediate crisis. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that seeks to identify structural future (potential) failure points from social web data. Summary video: https://lnkd.in/gnVtgJtY Paper link: https://lnkd.in/g8N_6dry #www #aiforgood #aiforall #nlproc
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I'm excited to share this new UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies report, published in partnership with the Terner Center, exploring some of the tradeoffs involved in the use of inclusionary zoning (IZ) policies to meet affordable housing goals. There's a lot of pressure to meet affordable housing goals, but limited tools for doing so. IZ is often seen as a solution, but the challenges of studying IZ empirically leave policymakers with very little guidance on how to think about it. This is not an empirical study, but my hope is that the conceptual approach taken here helps identify and clarify the costs and benefits of IZ. It's a starting point for deeper conversations, not the final word. Summarizing the analysis and some findings: 1. I used the Terner Housing Policy Simulator to model market-rate and below-market housing production through the City of LA's Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program, with inclusionary zoning requirements ranging from 0% to 40%. 2. All else equal, IZ always reduces production, but higher reqs lead to diminishing gains of below market-rate (BMR) units and accelerating losses of market-rate units. There's a point where higher IZ produces fewer of *both*. 3. LA's TOC program is well-calibrated to increase production of both. For example, TOC w/ 11% IZ produces more total housing than 0% without TOC bonuses. 4. Holding TOC bonuses constant, higher inclusionary zoning requirements come at significant cost. At best, every below-market unit produced by IZ reduces market-rate production by more than 4 units. At higher IZ, this "exchange rate" climbs to almost 9-to-1. 5. Inclusionary zoning isn't just an additional cost. The below-market units produced by IZ have value to the public, and specifically to low-income households, as a private subsidy by developers. I estimate the annual value of those subsidies under different IZ scenarios, ranging from $550 million to $1.7 billion. 6. We don't know how much different IZ requirements will increase rents, but we *can* estimate how much rents would need to increase to negate the value of private subsidies invested in affordable IZ units. And I find the required rent increases are quite small. For example, a 16% IZ requirement reduces market-rate production by almost half. If that reduction causes rents to increase at least 4.8% instead of 4% per year, the costs may outweigh the benefits. To me, that's not implausible. My takeaway: Different tools have different strengths, and land use policy may be best suited to improving affordability in the wider housing market, while public subsidies are best for producing below-market homes. IZ seeks to produce affordable homes by substituting land use policy in place of broadly shared taxes and public subsidies. This analysis suggests that the public may be paying either way, and that the costs of IZ are both higher and more regressive than the alternative
Using the Terner Housing Policy Simulator from Terner Labs, a new report from Shane Phillips at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies highlights the tradeoffs policymakers should consider in crafting inclusionary zoning policy requirements, with a focus on Los Angeles’ TOC program. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMuzmdwG
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For those who take the time to truly understand how zoning works and how it can be changed, the upside is immense. Read why, here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uttjfs
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For those who take the time to truly understand how zoning works and how it can be changed, the upside is immense. Read why, here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uttjfs
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Chief Executive Officer @ Maiker Housing Partners, Housing Fellow @ Common Sense Institute, Public Speaker, Optimist & Believer in People
This should be a fun conversation considering the healthy tension of differing opinions on this panel. Join us to see which perspective you favor... Common Sense Institute Colorado Homeownership Opportunity Alliance (Colorado) #starterhome #condos #realestatedevelopment #affordablehousing #affordablehomeownership #missingmiddle #yesiamanaffordablehousingdeveloper #plantingseedsofhousingabundance
Learn more about construction defects and condo development this Wednesday, March 27th. Colorado Politics & The Denver Gazette, Register today: https://bit.ly/3TqXaon #copolitics Panelists: Senator Rachel Zenzinger, Jeff Nehls, Peter LiFari, Scott Wilkinson, and Jenn Seidman
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Zoning Changes Austin What would it be like to see 8 or 9 story buildings on the side of S Lamar or S Congress? What is proposed for the changes in Austin's zoning for 2024? We cover all of these questions in great detail in this video https://lnkd.in/gsdFtzij
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"Live from Heckerling: Modern Estate Administration" (Excerpt from actual article): In a 50-minute presentation based on his 100-plus page outline, Steve R. Akers from Bessemer Trust touched on a myriad of post-death administration challenges. You can read the article by clicking here: https://conta.cc/4beufwa
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"Live from Heckerling: Modern Estate Administration" (Excerpt from actual article): In a 50-minute presentation based on his 100-plus page outline, Steve R. Akers from Bessemer Trust touched on a myriad of post-death administration challenges. You can read the article by clicking here: https://conta.cc/4beufwa
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City of Yes - Call to Action on July 10th! We thought that this process would continue in September @City Planning-However, they had other plans. Last Wednesday, the CPC stealthily announced they will have their (most likely sole) public hearing on Wednesday July 10th@ 10am. We already know CPC intends to vote in favor of the City of Yes-Housing Opportunity. It’s their proposal; based on what happened back in March when they had their hearing on COY-Economic Opportunity they will pretend the CBs & public were mostly in favor & approve it with extremely minor changes. Regardless of how they will vote, we MUST show up in force to this hearing, testify and tell them EXACTLY WHAT WE THINK OF THE CITY OF YES- HOUSING OPPORTUNITY! However, don’t bother going to the hearing in person. Sitting for 6 hours or more in their small hearing room in order to testify for two minutes is, frankly, a waste of your time. Like the previous Economic Opportunity hearing, this one will be hybrid – in-person and on Zoom – so you will be able to get in your two minutes by Zoom. However, if you are testifying by Zoom, they will not give the actual Zoom information or link out until one hour or so before the hearing - at 9am on Wednesday, July 10th. It’s important to give public testimony for at least 3 reasons: 1. To show that we will not be silenced & fooled by the propaganda and lies in the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity being put forth by Mayor Adams, Dan Garodnick & the City Planning Commission; 2. To communicate to the City Council, journalists and others there is much more & widespread opposition to COY than they are reporting or even acknowledging; 3. Must be on the public record--If this ultimately does pass the City Council, it will be part of any lawsuit against the city due to the Department of City Planning's clearly & purposefully deficient Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that is the basis of the City of Yes-Housing Opportunity More details at www.save1familyny.org
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