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Making Community Meetings More Accessible in 2025 with Digital Engagement Tools 

Social Pinpoint

In 2015, I was inspired by the conversations happening at the ELGL (Engaging Local Government Leaders) Annual Conference, specifically the discussions around making local government more accessible. Their ideas were both practical and refreshing, sparking a lot of reflection of my own experiences with community engagement.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

These devices enable students to actively engage in the collection and analysis of air quality data, equipping them with essential skills to address environmental challenges.” Since 2015, AWS has made major investments in Thailand, serving customers and unlocking transformation across industries. School chairman Mechai Viravaidya.

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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

And yes, homelessness takeovers of park and other public spaces contributes negatively too. == 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 (..)

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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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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

Let’s say you launch a constituent engagement initiative and within one year you see a significant rise across various metrics: website hits, comments received and event registrations. For Alanna Reed, San Antonio’s Director of Communications and Engagement, numbers tell only part of the story. Building Engagement Through Trust.

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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.