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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED. Behind the headline are a host of issues that both foster hope in how to address affordable housing needs and the realization of the many steps it may take to get there. Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms. Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

In 2017, the City of Bethlehem enlisted Reinvestment Fund and its partners Consulting and Atria Planning in the creation of a data-driven plan, dubbed the Bethlehem Blight Betterment Infinitive, or B3. In Bethlehem and Northampton County, officials could point to several successes and were optimistic about realizing additional goals.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions. Despite attempts at openness, for example by passing laws about disclosure, secrecy has survived remarkably well, and it is strongly backed by Draconian libel and slander laws.

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