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How changes to Fair Market Rent affects access to affordable housing for extremely low-income renters

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing Choice Vouchers are a critical source of funding for North Carolina’s lowest income renters to access affordable housing. Of those renters, 73% are extremely low-income, earning less than 30% of the local area median income. [1] For instance, the 2024 FMR was calculated using ACS data from 2017 to 2021.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. public sector customers.

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Transforming the culture of procurement in state and local government: An interview with Jeffrey Liebman, Director, Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab – Episode #141

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

“Many of the most important functions of state and local governments – from building and maintaining roads to housing the homeless – involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector,” notes the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab in their primer, Results-Driven Contracting: An Overview.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.