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

Center for Community Progress

When left unaddressed, these properties pose significant costs to public health, safety, community wealth, and more,” said Payton Heins, director of Michigan Initiatives for the Center for Community Progress, the nation’s leading nonprofit dedicated to ending systemic vacancy and abandonment. Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

COVID-19 has spotlighted the deep racial inequities in housing and illustrated the importance of housing stability to protecting public health. ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

Elsie Tan, country manager for worldwide public sector at AWS, opened up the AWS Summit Singapore keynote by highlighting how AWS’s continued investment in the ASEAN region is driving innovation in the public sector. Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51