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Student training program tackles Thailand’s air pollution with help from AirGradient, AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). Since 2015, AWS has made major investments in Thailand, serving customers and unlocking transformation across industries.

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Tackling New York City’s Housing Crisis is a ‘Shared Responsibility’

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In some of these low-density neighborhoods, no new affordable housing has been permitted since 2015. Housing Units Completed or Permitted (2015-2023) This map represents the housing units completed or permitted since 2015 (for affordable units, those <=80% AMI), normalized by the total housing units in the Community District in 2015.

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People aren't "hanging out" as much outdoors during the workday in the center city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. == Also see: -- " Extending the "Signature Streets" concept to "Signature Streets and Spaces ," (2020, originally 2015) -- " The layering effect: how the building blocks of an integrated public realm set the stage for community building and Silver Spring, Maryland as an example ," (2012) And the recent piece: -- " An interesting public space development (..)

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers." The mixed-income development will sit at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying area of D.C. s development team. that has seen average household income nearly double over the last 25 years.

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The shift to remote work, whether universal or not, represents a significant challenge for public officials focused on economic development. And for local governments engaged in business location incentive negotiations with private employers, the prospect of remote or hybrid workers must now be explicitly addressed. Reynolds, Jr.,

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.