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DoSomething’s journey with AWS brings efficiency, scalability

AWS Public Sector Blog

With our unique mix of technology, youth culture, and creative peer-to-peer engagement, DoSomething members have completed more than 94,000 hours of service, and have registered nearly 420,000 young people to vote since 2018, with a 62 percent turnout rate—more than 12 percent higher than the national average.

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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The New York City Council is currently considering the Department of City Planning’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) zoning reform proposal, and is set to vote on the proposed changes by the end of the year.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said. John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this.

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

Center for Community Progress

ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020. In response, ANDP’s board of directors unanimously voted to redirect all organization programming (housing development, lending, and advocacy) toward combating metro Atlanta’s devastating tide of foreclosures.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

He was elected to the Newburyport City Council for a two-year term in January 2010. Believing that Mayor Bloomberg will be reelected for a third time, she uses her blog as a keeper of reasons for why not to vote for the incumbent. His goal is to make government run like a big business. Councilor Ari Herzog’s Blog. The Chief’s Corner.

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. . == This is what I wrote in 2012 [links not re-checked]: I haven't kept up with the issue. From the article: Democrat Rep.

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House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes

Poverty & Policy

Two conservative economists estimated the annual cost at $15-$20 billion — this back in 2010. I’m inclined to think that some House Republicans who voted for the bill knew this, though, as we know for sure, House Speaker Ryan chose to rush it through, rather than wait for an official score from the Congressional Budget Office.

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