Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

. “Cities were more likely to change their local zoning in 2021 compared with 2014 – and to do so more dramatically,” they wrote. For example, in the 2014 planning cycle, the statewide target for housing growth was one million units. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Dawn Meyerriecks is a leading voice at the intersection of science, technology, and government, with more than 40 years in government and industry service, including national security and defense. public sector customers.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (which is really more about climate than inflation) this is an important moment for local governments to take advantage of the opportunities of the day to preserve clean air and water for generations to come. Four Paths To Change. ?.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 17, 2023

Of the more than 15,000 homes sold by the Detroit Land Bank since 2014, about 70% were bought by Detroit residents. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Better government services by design. Singapore launched the One Service app in 2014, two years after we began to try the new approach to development. Users no longer needed to know the precise scope of each agency, and the app greatly reduced the cases in which citizens needed to call another agency.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 25, 2023

From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Adam also served as Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management from 2019-2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Although not always mandatory, Zencity’s experience working with local government organizations across the U.S. Local governments are increasingly working to expand their recycling programs, promote resident engagement and knowledge, and innovate to combat climate change.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But that message isn’t getting through to our local government. The data reflect what we already know: When people’s basic need for a safe, stable home is met, it decreases violence in our neighborhoods. As we talked to close to 200 Grays Ferry residents, the stories poured in.

Housing 52

Housing Implementation Public Health Local Government 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For those in local government, service delivery and strategic fiscal planning doesn't get much better than this folks. The 2014 budget invested primarily in enhancing existing high priority programs, with the goal of an increased impact on achieving the PBB identified results.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward. commitment and time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities. Cities like Greensboro or Portland or Spokane have to be more innovative because they have fewer opportunities. DC has plenty of assets. They aren't coordinated or leveraged very well.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Special Funding.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Wogan, Peak Performance: How Denver’s Peak Academy is Saving Money, Boosting Morale and Just Maybe Changing the World.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 5, 2016

The program provides grants to nonprofits and local governments to address community needs in education, public safety, health and the environment. In 2014, AmeriCorps began prioritizing evidence in the scoring criteria by which it awards those competitive grants.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These programs, which are aimed at assisting first-time homebuyers (FTHBs), are primarily run by state and local governments as well as non-profit organizations. In fact, over the ten-year period from 2014 to 2023, it was even lower, averaging just 6.4 The typical FTHB down payment is nowhere near the historic 20 percent level.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

With tens of millions in federal funding, the selected consortiums—made up of state and local governments, educational institutions, businesses and community groups in 32 states and Puerto Rico—now have an opportunity to turn themselves into global players in advanced technology.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Performance Measurement for Local Government Management: Getting it Right. Strategic Use of Analytics in Government. Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Managing Performance: Robert Behn (2014). Melvin & Leigh. Analyzing Performance Data: Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa and Thomas H.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Civic participation drops in places without newspapers (" How the disappearance of local news hurts civic engagement ," PBS, " Local news has long provided a vital civic bond. Newspaper issues of The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton, the South Jersey Times and The Express-Times of Easton, from 2014. Mel Evans/AP Photo. "

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