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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cloud technology makes it possible for every service to be simple, reliable, scalable, adaptable, and secure. DOS supported bespoke teams such as developers, researchers, designers, and delivery leaders to complement the in-house government team. Simplification – Chile has administered public procurement through ChileCompra since 2003.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. Growing profits by exploiting the implied guarantee.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23).

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Residents of “late modern” society find themselves increasingly responsible for elements of life such as economic security, risk management, and identity maintenance that once were delivered by social institutions (Beck, 1999; Bennet, 1998). Simultaneously, broader social changes are also contributing to new activist forms. O’Hara (2010, p.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part one -- (in)FAQ and my influences

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the Urban Forum in Philadelphia in 2003, I asked one of the speakers, Charles Buki, what were some of his key influences. Later I summarized it as building better housing for low income residents was important but not the way to improve the local microeconomy. My influences: Why I look at things and draw conclusions the way I do.