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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Nobody goes there anymore.

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Returning to a Government of Competence

ASPA National Weblog

Kettl’s 2016 book Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence. Read Kettl’s book. In early 1993, as a military communications planner, I worked with peers and White House planners to prepare for the 50 th Anniversary of D-Day in Europe. Can the bureaucratic ship turn around?

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City of Humboldt Open House Brings Priority Based Budget to Public

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. The public had their chance to ask questions on April 5th at the public budget meeting at the Uniplex. Unlike the budget draft that had a $3.6

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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How Marathon County, WI Gets Their Priorities Straight!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

" We need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities." - Brad Karger, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger This article originally written by Brad Karger and published in the Summer 2016 Marathon County Newsletter. 160 million dollars ($160,000,000) is A LOT of money.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Transforming Federal grant programs from compliance driven to results focused: An interview with Robert Gordon, former Acting Deputy Director, White House Office of Management and Budget – Episode #129

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

We get insights from Robert Gordon who held top leadership roles at the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. He’s also the co-author with Ron Haskins of a bipartisan agenda for strengthening the use of data and evidence, published in the book Moneyball for Government. click here ].