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FITARA Scorecards Spur Agencies to Faster, More Efficient IT Modernization

FedTech Magazine

FITARA’s semiannual assessment ranks agencies on how well they meet the requirements outlined in the law, including data center optimization, enhancing CIO authority, cybersecurity and more. When 24 agencies were first assessed on the FITARA report card in 2015, only seven received a grade of C or higher.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The framework aims to enshire fair housing into law to ensure that every New Yorker has equal and fair housing. In some of these low-density neighborhoods, no new affordable housing has been permitted since 2015. The rate fell from 4.54 The city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7

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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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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2015, the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers and partners improve their cloud architectures and reduce their technical risk.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2015) (per curiam); Schutt v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” App'x 177 (5th Cir. Lewis , No. 6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. Kootenai County , No. Gaynor , 376 F.

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Litigating Insurance Claims After a Disaster

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Walker is a La Jolla, California attorney who has practiced law since 2008. He has practiced law throughout California, Connecticut, and Louisiana. Since 2015, he has represented people with personal injury and property damage claims and insurance disputes. He has practiced law throughout California, Connecticut, and Louisiana.

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Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act: An Initial Analysis of Short-Term Trends

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The policy brief analyzes properties with various shares of rent stabilized units to understand whether the law had a differential impact on primarily rent stabilized properties. For these reasons, some argued prior to the law’s passage that the HSTPA would negatively impact building values in the short- and long-term.

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