Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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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

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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The Future Is Community podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Jane highlights examples of interdisciplinary collaborations across Minnesota to demonstrate how successful community development enhances economic growth alongside social justice. In this episode, Jane Leonard draws from her 40 years of wisdom to emphasize the fact that our world is not one-dimensional.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Most sports teams don't have transportation demand management requirements (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). That's the case for the DC area teams.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Again for Davis and Salt Lake Counties, a goodly amount of land is tied up in mountain ranges Still, that's almost 3,500 square miles, that is developed as classic sprawl (" Study: Utah has second-fastest urban sprawl ," Salt Lake Tribune , 2014). Weekend travelers join the traffic on I-15 near Point of the Mountain near Draper Thursday, Aug.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved all 12 appropriations bills for the full Senate to consider, in line with the spending caps outlined in the bipartisan compromise on the debt limit developed earlier this year. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Also see: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018 There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar (" Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar ," New York Times). But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 25, 2023

On 25th May 2018, the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Robin Campbell-Burt discusses what’s changed 5 years later On 25th May, the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation – shortened to GDPR – which ultimately changed the way we deal with data.

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

In this post, I explain how councils used collaboration and shared resources to develop this digital public infrastructure which has reduced the cost of building council websites by up to 80 percent and delivered better services. Brighton & Hove and Croydon are councils that are mature in their use of Drupal, with in-house developers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime. The suicide rate among veterans is still 1.5 veterans dying by suicide every day.

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data. Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it.

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Public Sector Future

MARCH 31, 2022

In this episode we speak with Stefania Giannini, who was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. Discover her goals for inclusion and sustainable development in education. Click here for transcript of this episode. microsoft/podcasts

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Public Sector Future

MARCH 31, 2022

In this episode we speak with Stefania Giannini, who was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. Discover her goals for inclusion and sustainable development in education. Click here for transcript of this episode. microsoft/podcasts

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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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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

We have long invested in developing capabilities and services tailored to the unique privacy and security needs of the healthcare sector, and we are committed to supporting open source, open data, and open standard communities. The government’s eHealth strategy aims to improve digital services and data sharing for integrated care.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is especially true for those with HPD vouchers, because HPD has preference categories that prioritize use of its voucher authority with its affordable housing development and preservation work. Vouchers do not appear to expand neighborhood options, including for families with children.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

What’s really happening to the visitor is they’re starting to develop their own curatorial skills,” he says. “If “You go into Artomatic and you say, ‘Oh, I like this, I like this, I don’t like that, I don’t like that, I don’t like that.’ If I go to a gallery or museum, somebody has selected everything for me.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I always say that the first big lesson I have from involved in DC urban revitalization was that you needed to have plans before they were needed, not after, because once the velocity of development has been unleashed, you can't catch up. It's a similar process to that of the original development of city centers (Downtowns).

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices. In a 2018 Medium post , Jessica Kelly, Urban’s senior director of research and web technology wrote, “Organizations like Urban often have many complex models in older programming languages that would be time-consuming to rewrite in a more ‘modern’ language (e.g.,

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

In 2018, only 5 percent of the conventional mortgage market were loans to Black borrowers, compared to 15 percent of the FHA/VA market, which are government-mandated to serve underserved borrowers. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 29, 2024

billion in 2018 to £21.0 One way to develop this process is to create a connected data platform, leveraging AI, automation, and big data analytics across systems. This came to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Audit Office (NAO) found that the amount of fraud reported in the accounts they audited rose from £5.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

And developing personalized health and care is becoming a major driver to deliver higher quality of care at lower costs. Since 2018, more than 2.4 Our lifestyles are increasing our risk of preventable disease and are affecting our well-being. We are living longer with multiple long-term conditions.

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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. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). 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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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is a massive development in the world of space exploration and potential future risks of the space sector. All four satellites were constructed by Northrop Grumman in Virginia and launched between 2018 and 2020.

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, these applications will not operate smoothly unless IoT-based strategies for developing smart cities have a database as their foundation. The development of everything from autonomous cars to smart grids for renewable energy through to AI-based robots on factory floors is enabled by 5G. The impact of 5G.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 31, 2018

On today’s episode, we’re talking with Peter Kageyama, one of the 2018 NRPA Annual Conference keynote speakers. Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.

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FedHeads

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Kevin Cummins, Vice President of Technology at the Professional Services Council, joins Robert and Francis to talk about trends in Federal IT and the latest development in modernizing the technology that drives government programs. 6901: [link]. 6901: [link].

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The Lowe Down

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2018, more females graduated than males in every single county, as shown by the choropleth in figure 1. A lack of male educators, earlier female brain development, or favorable school structure prioritizing organization are reasons often cited. A one-unit increase represents a $1000 loss per worker to the China Shock.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

Mostly about urban universities, but the principles still apply to smaller towns. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown (..)

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