AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

When AWS started our public sector business in 2010, customers were primarily attracted to cloud for two reasons: to save money, and to promote efficiencies by hosting websites on the cloud and using cloud storage. Organizations no longer need special hardware or in-house expertise to reap the benefits.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, land banks in New York are: Expanding the Production of Affordable Housing. And all land banks have partnered with either nonprofit housing providers or private local contractors to create more affordable housing choices, including rental units, across the state. Supporting Workforce Development Goals.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

A property tax exemption in New York City is necessary to make rental housing development financially feasible across the city’s varied markets, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Vacant house and lots in the Larimer neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Better off segments have the money to maintain aging houses.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Overview of the FSOC Report The FSOC was created in 2010 as a federal interagency committee primarily to identify threats to financial stability and recommend actions to avoid them. This is an extremely significant development in my view. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. 28 But, surprisingly, the Report (p.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Marimba Milliones is president and CEO of the Hill Community Development Corporation. One of the projects was an arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins, called the Civic Arena , which opened in 1967 and was torn down in 2010. Owners-developers oppose ticket or parking taxes saying it will reduce patronage. Wikipedia photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

And complaints about being under-amenitized on the West Side center around a conspiracy against POC but because of lack of population and commercial centers, and historical developments--the west side population was close to downtown anyway, which was the regional business and retail center before sprawl. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

India has one of the largest developer user bases in the world and the third largest startup network. This network is augmented and supported by large scale government programs like the National Skills Development Center ( NSDC ). Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

2011 Doors Open Toronto Guide ) But Open House New York Weekend is increasingly a big deal. The Dixieland Trail was an automobile route organized and promoted by the travel divisions and state development boards of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. The House supported the program through House Bill 5783. Leadership on the House side included House Appropriations Committee Chair Thomas Albert (R-86) and Rep. “Vacant properties are a statewide issue. Curtis Hertel (D-23).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. mortgage originations. the legislation establishing them).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. Socialist (25 November 2010), p. It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Cybersecurity has been subject to a wave of change over the last decade and is reflected in the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme Threat actors have developed extremely innovative ways of performing devastating attacks – an expanding arsenal of techniques that has forced a rethink in how organisations develop and deploy their defence strategies.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

“This is a great opportunity for our team of resident leaders to learn from other communities and experts, to bring good ideas home to Syracuse, and to work with neighbors to develop a project that will beautify and engage the community.”. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser About the Center for Community Progress.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, " Residents offered free health checks in libraries ," BBC and " Creative library project underway in Wilmington to spur community and economic development ," Wilmington News-Journal. Other developments. Library staff in SF hold a press conference and protest about understaffing. Photo: Martin do Nascimento, KQED.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

For example, CEJST uses 2010 data to define census tracts that comprise disadvantaged communities. More importantly, it’s sound planning and program development. But just like getting fitted for a new eyeglass prescription, things may get a little blurrier with multiple lens tests before everything is perfectly clear.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This dataset aims to accelerate the development of event-based algorithms and methods for edge cases encountered by autonomous systems in dynamic environments. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms. Granular personalization also becomes achievable – AI algorithms can develop customized health alerts by assessing lifestyle factors of individuals. The maximum discount is 15% of total spending.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Furman Center faculty directors Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Kathy O’Regan recently released “ Supply Skepticism Revisited ”, highlighting the latest rigorous research that draws out the nuanced effects housing supply has on housing affordability. 16 hosted at the NYU School of Law.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. Nevertheless, there were some spectacular failures. of the population has been vaccinated.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Before my life disintegrated with the death of my father, the middle house is where we lived in Detroit. They build generational wealth for Detroiters, while supporting housing affordability. Detroit has tens of thousands of vacant properties and lots (" Detroit Shrinks Itself, Historic Homes and All ," Wall Street Journal, 2010 ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What differs the most are the spatial conditions. -- " Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," (2010). By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. And such modes are often as much about economic development as they are about transit. That's not the case.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] 9] Putting strict and comparatively low limits on the size of the investment portfolios.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider. Planning relevance.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah. In the 2010 cycle they divided Salt Lake County into three of the four districts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Second, the House and Senate, Republican-controlled, are not likely to criticize the moves, even though such moves may significantly harm large segments of their constituencies--for example, Medicaid, the low income health insurance program, ended up being frozen as well. Medicaid Funding Freeze Would Hurt Trumps Own Voters ," US News ).

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