Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

22, 2018, until Jan. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed. Our assessment of the most recent shutdown —which lasted a historic 35 days from Dec.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The White House wants agencies to ensure they’re providing easy-to-use, trustworthy, accessible information to improve how they communicate with citizens, which is why it issued digital experience guidance in September.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data. Whether you’re planning to use more AI or just want to improve analytics and tighten cybersecurity, good data management must be the foundation for your efforts. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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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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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. It was an okay size and in a pretty good location roughly at the intersection of 7th and H Streets NW and across from the Gallery Place Metrorail Station. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

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. hospitals and housing) often prevent effective discharge planning ( Greysen et al.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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." And you want that to happen, since you're spending billions of dollars on it.

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GovCast

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Oct 25, 2018 | This episode features Marcy Jacobs, Executive Director of the Digital Service team at Veterans Affairs, and recent recipient of a Service to America Medal for Management Excellence for her and her team's work connecting vets to the benefits they deserve.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Marisa Calderon’s Bio and Experience Marisa Calderon is an experienced executive who is regularly recognized, awarded and cited nationwide for her expertise in the housing and financial services industries. She has over two decades of experience dedicated to the issues of economic mobility and bridging America’s racial wealth gap.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

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. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

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. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 31, 2022

This trend discussed in a 2018 post by DFI colleague Frank Muraca: unc.live/37TJaQy. Community land trusts – where land is owned by community and only the structure is sold to homebuyer – touted as an affordable housing solution used around the world. Corporate landlords in NC mapped by News & Observer. 3N5YGbn.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 8, 2024

We estimate that if all homeowners were subject to the citywide average effective tax rate during Fiscal Year 2018, homeowners in the neighborhoods with the largest share Black population would have paid about $17 million less in property taxes per year, and the quartile with the smallest share Black population would have paid $10 million more.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. Over its history, NCST has facilitated REO sales on behalf of the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and a number of large banks and mortgage servicers. percent overall.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 1, 2024

The most recent data we could find about the knowledge most Americans have about their states came from a 2018 study by Johns Hopkins University (and it’s our guess that things haven’t gotten any better since then). (Truth in advertising: We had to look all that stuff up, on ConstitutionFacts.Com. )

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2024

The solution, which I wrote in 2013 (" Urban composting redux ," " A way for DC to begin adding yard waste collection as a separate element of waste collection and reduction programming ") is to divide the city into two: (1) rowhouse neighborhoods and (2) detached housing neighborhoods.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

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. But that is changing because wildfire smoke is not as localized as pollution from factories and freeways and wildfires are on the rise.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice. We’ve seen some of the biggest and most innovative ideas come from IMAGINE Grant applicants.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

We are hopeful that Congress and the White House will come to a resolution before our debt limit is reached—and that an agreement on spending will foreclose the possibility of another government shutdown at the end of the fiscal year to ensure that agencies have the necessary funding to deliver on their missions.

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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. Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed. The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different.

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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.

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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. Glass collection container in Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City I gave them a bunch of ideas. And it's not particularly systematic. Putting messages on the area garbage trucks, sponsoring NPR, promoting events, etc.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Kerslake, B.

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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. 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

MARCH 20, 2024

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. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit. Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002.

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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. And not providing a shelter doesn't work out so great in the winter either.

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. Ward Democracy Houses should also include at least one annual "community organization fair" which could also serve as a volunteer recruitment event. This week: How about volunteering in something? Funds for small projects.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (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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