AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. million positions unfilled between 2018 and 2028—it is clear that there is a growing talent gap in critical STEM-focused areas.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Marisa Calderon is the executive director at NCRC Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF), a nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified community development financial institution (CDFI) that provides loan capital to expand access to affordable homeownership, which helps Black-, Brown- and woman- owned businesses thrive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical software development companies Digithurst and Telepaxx worked together to create an end-to-end cloud solution chain handling administration of patient data and their radiological scans; viewing and editing of scans; as well as long-term archiving. In 2018, this platform, called HealthDataSpace, was migrated to AWS.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The first study, published in presentation format by Freddie Mac’s Market Insights Group, is titled “ Manufactured Housing 2022: An Untapped Affordable Housing Solution ,” and represents the 2022 Manufactured Housing Survey. The School of Government has a variety of related blog posts.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 31, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. This trend discussed in a 2018 post by DFI colleague Frank Muraca: unc.live/37TJaQy. April 2022. The “urban crescent” is the target area: bit.ly/3OXaNsp.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. While eviction filing rates for units with voucher households were higher than those for other renter households in the same neighborhood in 2019, we observed a shift in 2022, with voucher households experiencing lower filing rates.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. million in total economic impact. But it would have to be built into the experience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In fact, in 2018, suicide was the second leading cause of death in children and adolescents. In the summer of 2022, the agency reported a 50 percent increase in visits to the emergency room for suicide attempts by girls aged 12–17. Then COVID-19 struck.

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GovLoop

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2022, the FBI issued a warning that ransomware attacks were straining local governments and public services. Such a shortage makes it difficult for any organization to develop systems and processes to prevent cyberattacks, and to respond quickly and effectively when attacks happen. This was not news.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 27, 2024

Landlord participation in the voucher program has declined both nationally and in North Carolina from around 90% in 2018 to 80% in 2024. To determine FMR, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses the median rent price of 2-bedroom units from the latest American Community Survey (ACS). Picture of Subsidized Households.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Microsoft Federal's FedMake program delivers hackathon style events, exclusively for Federal (Civilian / DoD / Intel) organizations, where conditions are created, and facilitated, by Microsoft experts, for cross-organization teams to leverage Microsoft expertise and develop solutions that achieve their mission. Thank you for your patience.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s easy to picture emissions from a factory or car but much less intuitive when it comes to someone developing software on their laptop. Globally, the UK ranks third among countries in terms of the number of data centres, with 456 in 2022. Or that energy consumption is rising 9% per year? million flights annually.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

Organizations like the MRSC or IBO provide a lot of deep research which is almost uniformly lacking when it comes to DC policy development and program practice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In March 2022, the FBI issued a warning that ransomware attacks were straining local governments and public services. Such a shortage makes it difficult for any organization to develop systems and processes to prevent cyberattacks, and to respond quickly and effectively when attacks happen. This was not news.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

From the first article: Alcohol killed 1,547 people statewide in 2022 — fewer than the 1,799 who died of overdoses. This table from the first article lists the leading causes of death in Colorado as of 2022. But it's a major oversight in a city like DC, where addiction is high, for example 461 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In fact, now it's slated for closure. -- " A positive deviance failure in Boston: Timilty Middle School ," 2022 What an incredible waste. Like my frustration with DC Government. After two terms, eight years, the reelected mayor is looking for innovative ideas? -- " I can't help but laugh.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's why Friendship Heights in DC isn't doing so great retail-wise (" Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ") and why DC can't really develop a strong retail center in the core. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to economic development.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. link] (accessed 21 October 2022). Technology and the Threat of Disaster.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. The tax had to be approved by the Legislature originally and is renewed every ten years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 20, 2024

1, 2) To develop effective mental health policies and treatments, it is crucial to understand how Canadians have dealt with the pandemic. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2018. Digital Health, 2022. Stress, anxiety, and depression have all increased in Canada due to the pandemic. (1, Welch, V., 14 (1): p. 20552076221102253.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. People lining up for The Deuce. Transit in Las Vegas Bus.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery.

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here is the description of the webinar: The economic disruption of COVID-19 will substantially affect state budgets in coming fiscal years, with an estimated $275 billion in revenue losses through fiscal June 2022. Join us on December 8, 2020, from 1-2:30 p.m and New York City.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It's also complicated because some people in low income neighborhoods believe that local schools are always inferior to schools in high income areas (" DCPS middle schools in black wards, "positive deviance" and the pull of the attractiveness of schools in the upper income wards west ," 2022). Schools as fundamental neighborhood anchors.

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