This article argues that the bursting of the housing bubble, the banking crisis and the resulting great recession of 2008 have altered the landscape for local governments. The authors contend that the economic recession has created a ''new normal'' for local government finances, employment, and services. This ''new normal'' perspective holds that the great recession of 2008 represents a break point for local governments, with implications likely to last long after the economy recovers. The authors suggest that the ''new normal'' for local governments will consist of fewer resources, smaller workforces, and new ways of delivering services.
Using data from the 50 states, this exploratory study looks at public university use of public–private partnerships (P3s) for a particular type of social infrastructure, student housing. The relation between state social infrastructure P3s enabling legislation and public university P3 student housing project closures is analyzed. A deep dive is conducted into the legislative requirements of four states (California, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia) that have specific enabling legislation governing public university use of P3s for social infrastructure. The study finds that public universities have a 20-year history of utilizing social infrastructure P3s for student housing. A relationship is found between state social infrastructure P3 enabling legislation and increased public university use of P3s for student housing. The study also finds that states with specific public university P3 social infrastructure enabling legislation place decidedly different requirements on their use.
The present system of decennial censuses has been the method employed ever since the first census was taken in 1801, but there is general agreement amongst those interested in population statistics that ten years is much too long an interval between successive enumerations. A series of censuses at quinquennial intervals would, without doubt, afford a more reliable basis for the solution of many problems in demography. Further, if a permanent census office were set up all the information as regards movements of the population in and out of the country, and to and from various districts in the country, at present supplied to various Government departments, should be given to that office. A closer link between successive censuses would thus be forged, and intercensal populations more readily obtained with much greater accuracy than at present.
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