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As New Jersey’s second largest city, Jersey City has experienced a surge in urban redevelopment and new development, particularly its downtown wards closest to New York City. Situated on the Hudson River directly across from downtown New York City, Jersey City is an ideal location for New Jersey developers and realtors to redevelop in order to attract New York City’s financial sector employees and individuals desiring more living space at lower rental or mortgage costs. In other words, downtown Jersey City exemplifies urban gentrification. In the last twenty years, several public policies helped spur waterfront development to attract potentially wealthier residents. In an effort to lure developers and investors, Jersey City officials relied heavily on municipal tax abatements to offset increasingly high property taxes. So after two decades, has Jersey City demonstrated that Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), tax abatements and other tax policy incentives are in fact feasible in terms of the following questions: What have been the implications of these policies? Who benefited from and who was marginalized from these policies? This paper examines the rising concerns surrounding tax abatements and other pro-development tax policies. By examining a medium sized city like Jersey City, this case study is especially useful in understanding the significant issues and shortcomings with urban redevelopment tax incentives. Too often these incentives benefit a political and financial elite at the economic expense and loss of political rights of long-term residents and renters.
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Law, Politics, and African Americans in Washington, DC explores the legal challenges and triumphs of African Americans and law and politics in Washington, DC, a city whose majority population comprises African Americans. It examines the interconnection between law and politics in Washington, DC, because it is vital to know the legal conditions under which the African American residents of the most powerful city in the world live, based on sound empirical evidence. Law, Politics, and African Americans in Washington, DC addresses two major questions: - Why study African Americans in terms of law and politics? - Why examine law and politics at the local level, in this case Washington, DC?
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This is the fourth in a series of books dealing with Washington, DC. Like the first three, this also is the outgrowth of special seminars conducted in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. We examine Washington, DC's challenges, because it is vital to know the conditions under which the residents of the most powerful city in the world continue to live, based on sound empirical evidence.
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The mayoral archive includes both official and personal documents that can be used for research on various aspects of New Haven's history. Much of the DeStefano collection, for example, has various reports and studies on economic development and school construction projects, which were key to his administration.The Hilton C. Buley Library hosts a growing collection of mayoral papers from four New Haven mayors: Biagio “Ben” DiLieto (1980–90), John Daniels (1990–94), John DeStefano Jr. (1994–2014) and Toni Harp (2014–20). The materials are available to the public by appointment. Many items—including the full DeStefano papers—are available in a digital archive through the Buley Library website or the Connecticut Digital Archive portal. Jackie Toce, librarian and head of technical services at Buley Library, has spent the last seven years leading the digitization efforts for the archive, one of the reasons DeStefano donated the materials to Southern.4 Buley Library will host an exhibition and formal unveiling of the archive in late October 2021, which will run through the end of the year.
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