GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report. ” This article appears in “ Improving Customer Experience: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 4, 2024

Like many local agencies, the Auditor’s Office in Travis County, Texas, needed to do more with less: While a dynamic housing market increased the volume of property tax refunds by 25% annually since 2018, the office received no extra funding to complete its legally required audits.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

From the article: English councils collectively went on a near 7bn commercial property buying spree, a journey which has now proved to be responsible for bringing some of them to the edge of bankruptcy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic. It's what you call a "priming effect."

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Housing Community Development Development Nonprofit 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

According to the Washington Informer article, " DC's new plan to slash its trash ," DC is adding ten years, one decade more, to its waste diversion goal, from 2030 to 2040 That's 16 years!!!!!!!!!! Detached housing neighborhoods tend to generate a lot more yard waste than rowhouse neighborhoods.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

The Boston Globe has an interesting article, " Gentrification is washing over America’s wealthiest cities. Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. Transforming a building. "

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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. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. 1 venue in the world." I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

Article by Derik Suria & Meghna Pamula Air pollution is a serious public health concern. This correlation occurs because air quality is an amenity that is capitalized into housing prices; cleaner air is among the many goods purchased by more affluent households in California.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

There are three bus stops--no shelters--alongside Sugar House Park for which I am on the board, and I hope that we work with the Utah Transit Authority to put shelters in, and at at least two of the locations, to incorporate greenery. The New York Times has an article on a bus shelter public art project, " Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery."

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. This article appears in our guide, “Agency of the Future: How New Possibilities are Emerging in the Present.” Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard." Glass collection container in Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City I gave them a bunch of ideas. But they need planners too.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

They can be very helpful: Using artificial intelligence (AI), ADM systems assist or replace human efforts to make potentially life-altering decisions related to public benefits, policing, housing, health care, immigration, education, emergency response, child welfare and other concerns. According to a recent survey, 70% of U.S.

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GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2023

Department of Agriculture took this approach in 2018, when it adopted a combination of public and private cloud services. This article appears in our Guide, “ Unpacking Digital Transformation.” One option is a hyperconverged infrastructure, in which compute, storage and networking resources are fully integrated.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Post has an article about how Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is getting a masters degree in machine learning so he can apply AI to government and creating better policy (" A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI "). Positive deviance theory: Hope amidst failure.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Plan + program + building.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It had a decent run, but it closed in 2005 (" Wah Luck House maintains culture in dying D.C. From the article: Lofty plans for the still-to-be-named project include: A grocery stocked with Asian snacks, noodles, produce and pantry staples. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011). Chef-y prepared foods, sauces and ready-to-cook items.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

She mentioned an article in the New Yorker about apples, " Crunch: Building a Better Apple ," and I was reminded of a story I read in a Toronto newspaper about an Italian immigrant who kept a fig tree going in his backyard for decades. Trees as place, trees as stories. Some died and we nursed the others. The willow oak was already gone.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's really hard when you're failing. It's worth a read.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. Although the residential housing market continues to be hot, the commercial property might be a concern in the future as a result of the possible working modality change.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis also faced issues with rising crime and declining ridership that predated the pandemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. 1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. but it fell off.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I just learned that another place where I lived will be demolished for a new dormitory (" Saying goodbye to Ann Arbor's Marshall Court: Houses to be demolished for new dorm ," Ann Arbor News ). That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. officials hope new USC campus can aid in downtown’s comeback."

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From the article: Fare evasion has worsened during the pandemic and is a visible reminder to riders of revenue Metro is not collecting — even as the agency calls on regional leaders to help with financial woes. Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. From the article: Things are falling apart. Or they’re not there at all.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Winston-Salem Journal has a really great article about this process, " Triad weathers corporate HQ departures with manufacturing revival." These days, not unlike Caterpillar living Peoria for Chicago, and now to Texas, Winston-Salem is experiencing the loss of those corporations, especially as they further consolidate and relocate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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