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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Top New York City officials urged state leaders in Albany to provide the necessary funding and legislative support to build additional housing as the city contends with its worst housing crunch in over 50 years. "We percent—the lowest mark since 1986, according to the latest NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey released last Thursday.

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How local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Affordable housing developers, particularly those using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) to build new low-income rental housing, are also feeling the effects of this challenging development environment. 1] The data shows that rising costs are taking a toll on new affordable housing projects.

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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

Since 2012, Ford — whom the American Public Transportation Association selected as Outstanding Public Transportation Manager in 2020 and President Barack Obama named a White House Champion of Change in 2015 — has served as the Jacksonville Transportation…

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

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

tags map Key/Value pairs of attributes that describe the OSM feature, such as ‘building=house’ or ‘natural=tree’. 2,730 2015-01-02 301.42 5,558 2015-01-03 146.77 If the version is greater than 1, the feature has been edited since it was first created. changeset bigint The changeset in which the feature was last edited.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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How NTSB Leans on Microsegmentation to Improve Its Security Posture

FedTech Magazine

Federal agencies have reported an average of about 30,000 cyber incidents annually for the past five years, according to data from the White House Office of Management and Budget.