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What Can We Learn About the Low Income Housing Tax Credit By Examining the Tenants?… Using tenant-level data from 18 states that represent almost 40% of all Low-Income Housing …
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The Great Recession's Impact on New York City's Budget.Strong property tax growth and proactive policies - including beginning the recession with a substantial surplus of $5.3 billion (9 percent of revenues) - offset a severe contraction in income tax receipts, protecting the City's budget such that it never …
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Public Mandates, Market Monitoring, and Nonprofit Financial DisclosuresPublic officials have recently sought increased regulation of financial disclosures from not-for-profit organizations as a means of improving accountability with the public. One objective of this study is to examine whether not-for-profit entities already …
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Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategiesWhile current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and …
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Household Asset Portfolios and the Reform of the Housing Finance Market… housing plays in household asset portfolios in the United States. Currently, families don't have much choice regarding …
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Principles for Autonomous UrbanismThe promises of autonomous vehicles in cities are clear – but so are the challenges. While they show incredible potential for moving both people and goods – from providing mobility for populations underserved by public transit to creating safer traffic …
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Jennifer Curry (MPA 2007) on helping social impact organizations advance equityThe following article was created by the NYU Alumni Association (NYUAA) as part of their annual Alumni Awards in recognition of University-wide graduates who are making an impact. Jennifer Curry, EdD, founded Change Impact in 2017 to help social impact …
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Municipal Action to Phase-Out the Use of Perchloroethylene (perc) by Dry Cleaners… on the alternatives to perc and initiatives in other states such as California. Informal interviews with owners …
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Performance Improvement Initiative… (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, is comprised of eleven acute care hospitals, five …
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Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress… use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful …
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Challenge of a Non-Billable Patient RatioThe Floating Hospital (TFH) is a Federally Qualified Health Center, providing 57,000 patient visits annually to homeless individuals and families from all New York City boroughs. Wherever possible, TFH bills the Medicaid program for medically necessary …
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Organ Donation Beliefs and Attitudes… people need life-saving organ transplants in the United States. On average, 18 people die every day because of the …
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Radical Prostatectomy Improves and Prevents Age Dependent Progression of Lower Urinary Tract SymptomsPurpose : The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms increases with age and impairs quality of life. Radical prostatectomy has been shown to relieve lower urinary tract symptoms at short-term followup but the long-term effect of radical prostatectomy …
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The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studies… elsewhere that people in the margins draw in. Powerful states, corporations, and other play a role, but the …
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NYU Wagner Alumna Sally Greenspan chosen as "40 under 40" rising star in the nonprofit sectorNYU Wagner alumna Sally Greenspan (MUP, 2011) has been chosen by New York Nonprofit Media as one of its “40 under 40” rising stars in the nonprofit sector. Ms. Greenspan’s work at Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing organization, …
Alumni In Action
Alda ChanHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? There's nowhere quite like New York City to study urban planning, policy and design—the City is a living lab of the complex issues we tackle in the classroom and the sheer concentration of urban …
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Mat SandersWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? As a Louisiana native, I developed a deep and personal interest in the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery and redevelopment of my home state. Ultimately, I felt I could make the best, most long-lasting impact by …
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Mayors Say They're at Forefront of Government ResponsivenessSituated at the front lines of government, mayors of small and mid-sized cities increasingly find themselves dealing directly with the impact of climate change, immigration, and technological and economic shifts – with little or no help, several of them …
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Social Change LeadershipJennifer Dodge, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Angela Beard and Caitlin Murphy, February 2013. Beyond Foundation Funding: Revenue-Generating Strategies for Sustainable Social Change. Ospina, Sonia. Leadership for Social Change: Contributions for a Contemporary …
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Justin CrockettJustin Crockett is a Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is an experienced professional in the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors with the ability to communicate concise value …
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Anjana Sreedhar… disparities among marginalized populations in the United States, looking explicitly at the impact of non-health …
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Introduction to the IssuesOverview The IRB system, and the accompanying regulatory framework, were designed primarily with biomedical research as the model. Yet IRB review also applies to social science. There is a sense in the social science world that this the framework (as …
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Danil Makarov… administered to men with prostate cancer in the United States. His research interests focus on the use of tissue and …
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Rice Urban Policy Forum Addresses Detroit's Troubled Past and Potential Revival… the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy in United States history. Since its peak in the 1950s, Detroit has …