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Q&A: West Chester Expands Its Cybersecurity Initiatives

State Tech Magazine

has had a long career in local government IT. To gain insights into small-city governance, StateTech spoke to Mann about his technology priorities and how West Chester is preparing for the future. In 2008, the city made… William Mann, CISO of West Chester, Pa., By 1996, I was promoted to IT manager there.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Davis, John E., Davis, John E.

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Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

Center for Community Progress

Predatory lending in the leadup to the 2008 mortgage crisis overwhelmingly targeted Black and Brown people who were promised that homeownership was the ticket to building generational wealth. The global financial crisis in 2008 was also a major trigger for many communities.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

The largest portion of funding land banks across the country receive comes from their local governments, and that amount does not cover the scope of the problem land banks are expected to address.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

While it is not focused on North Carolina or local governments, I think there is still much in there that is likely of interest to you all. Especially because we all know that what happens at the state level impacts the local level. Recently I participated in a webinar for Kenan Flagler’s Tax Center. and New York City.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.