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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The study, “ Success Rates in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: 2018-2022 ,” by the NYU Furman Center’s Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, and Sarah Strochak, estimates success rates for recipients of housing choice vouchers nationally and by local public housing agencies between 2018-2022.

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LocalGov Drupal on AWS serves as a digital transformation resource for local governments

AWS Public Sector Blog

Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. Brighton & Hove council had already signed up to the Local Digital Declaration in 2018 , which encouraged councils to collaborate on digital projects. The councils agreed that Croydon could reuse Brighton & Hove’s code.

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Lessons learned from Newham’s flagship participatory budget program

Citizen Lab

The People Powered Places program is the London Borough of Newham’s flagship program of participatory budgeting. It started in 2018… The post Lessons learned from Newham’s flagship participatory budget program appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog.

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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

“Our major theme of the next two-year budget is ‘Where’s the fun?’” The City of Kenmore , and the City of Bainbridge Island are not only pioneers in Priority Based Budgeting, but also the launch of OnlinePBB (where Kenmore incorporated their capital project prioritization). The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

22, 2018, until Jan. The report also offers an ominous warning for what could lie ahead for the nation’s armed forces if Congress does not enact a budget before the next deadline. Our assessment of the most recent shutdown —which lasted a historic 35 days from Dec.

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What New Federal Digital Experience Guidance Means for Agencies

FedTech Magazine

“Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience,” the guidance released by the Office of Management and Budget, serves as a framework for agencies, offering actions and standards for modernizing websites and other digital services.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. Congress allocates funding for federal agencies and programs through the appropriations process.