Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As federal agencies grapple with aging IT infrastructure and mounting cybersecurity challenges, the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Reform Act represents a critical lifeline for technological advancement in the government sector. Q: Are there any particular areas government agencies should focus on this year?

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Despite the recent passage of stopgap funding to keep the federal government open, Congress is once again running down the clock on another potential shutdown that would furlough nearly 1.5 Service members stand to lose If a government shutdown is not avoided, it will be the fourth to occur within the last decade. 22, 2018, until Jan.

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. During his years as governor, Steve successfully grew Montana’s economy, made record investments in public education, expanded access to health care, protected public lands, and prioritized fiscal responsibility and transparency in government. public sector customers.

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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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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

Conversations about this looming crisis—known as a debt limit breach—may bring to mind another dire and perhaps more well-known situation: a partial or full government shutdown. disrupt critical federal services, undermine public trust in government, and make it harder for our government to respond to threats and keep us safe.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 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. See also Maureen Berner’s post on mobile homes as a significant source of affordable housing in NC. unc.live/3SEV3f6. unc.live/3eAcyP7. 3T8pASF.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From the article: During a worsening housing affordability crisis, New York City landlords are keeping tens of thousands of rent-stabilized units off the market — a phenomenon tenant activists call “warehousing.” The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) repealed both vacancy bonuses and vacancy decontrol.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). By agenda I mean the set of challenges which policy makers accord priority. Again, I think this is community building.

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Bang the Table

APRIL 22, 2022

With the British government’s social housing white paper published just a few weeks prior, social housing provider Catalyst ® launched The Garden – an online community platform that enables tenant participation and provides real-time customer feedback. – Greek Proverb.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. From a constituent perspective, such behavior diminishes trust in government as a whole, Deloitte found. The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets.

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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. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A capital stack for a community development project might be made up of a combination of equity (such as grant funds from private or government sources), Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)-flexible debt, and conventional debt. Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 3, 2023

The optical connector housing is also elastically deformed by physical contact technology that presses the ferrules together to maintain a stable connection. In 2019, an SC type MCF connector was developed that realises the same principle with a simplified structure (2) (Fig. IWCS 2019, 8-1 (2019). International License.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 4, 2022

In 2019-20, almost 2 million households in England had one or more people with a health condition that required adaptations to their homes. But the latest data suggests that the scheme is not currently meeting the government mandated timescale of 18 months for approval and completion of work. So far, so promising.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2023

Many government agencies still rely heavily on paper. Digital-first efforts are underway in government agencies. A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. For example, to process millions of visa applications each year, U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In this post, we analyze New York State ERAP applications and the demographic, economic, and housing characteristics of the ZIP Codes where renters have filed applications as of August 31, 2021. Source: 2015-2019 5-year American Community Survey and New York State ERAP Application Figures as of 8/31/21 (NY OTDA), NYU Furman Center.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1).

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A survey conducted in Minneapolis, Minnesota, indicated that barely half of the residential rental listings surveyed were affordable for persons receiving vouchers from the federal government's "Section 8" program, and only about a quarter of those affordable properties were willing to accept such vouchers. Fletcher Props., 2d 410 (Minn.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. In the “Freedom House” dataset, the freedom status of a country can take on one of three categorical values: Free, Partially Free, and Not Free.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Derek: DTS is an organization that supports the federal government commercial, and health entities with our expertise in cybersecurity, digital transformation, knowledge management, and workforce training development. Derek: As a government contractor, we support the DoD and have access to CUI in the performance of our contracts.

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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. Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits. And it's not particularly systematic. But they need planners too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The mass adoption of cloud solutions by government agencies has improved cost management and service delivery but has brought with it some significant security challenges. Three years ago, we sent everyone to their houses and then help desk tickets started pouring in,” McCarthy explained in a session at the Zscaler Public Sector Summit.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The crises of the past few years have brought with them a rallying cry for more evidence in government; a call to “follow the science” and “lead with data.” And governments have responded. First, the trials produced evidence on what works in the relevant government department.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 21, 2024

Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events. In total, 120 people attended these open houses, which were broadly advertised and centrally located, with only 44 completing surveys.

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 16, 2022

FEMA’s overall integration of technology, innovation and communication into its operations resulted in a 3-point increase in its customer experience score from 2019. To learn more about the customer experience at FEMA and other agencies, check out our full “Government for the People” report. Equity for disaster relief in action.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). City Block has a good post on how to do a transit hub at New Carrollton, " Missing a chance to create a great transit hub – New Carrollton." I hope they read it.) Conclusion.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Schools with high income demographics tend to do much better than those with low income demographics. Special Funding. but it fell off.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 7, 2023

Obviously it's not new that high quality schools track to housing values etc. are planning initiatives not really taken. Salt Lake. A friend of mine here is a school teacher, and we've talked for many years about school "planning" issues, I've shared with her past writings, etc.

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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 focused on action steps and funding approaches that could be taken by local government entities and partners.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

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., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); commitment and time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

in parts of New England, Washington State, California, Maryland, etc.). -- " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ," 2021 Transformational Projects Action Planning. But in the present, most transit agencies don't do a good job of tourism marketing.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Derek: DTS is an organization that supports the federal government commercial, and health entities with our expertise in cybersecurity, digital transformation, knowledge management, and workforce training development. Derek: As a government contractor, we support the DoD and have access to CUI in the performance of our contracts.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This ensures they understand the four cornerstones of community development: (1) A ffordable housing; (2) C ommunity services; (3) E conomic development; and. (4) See occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/community-affairs/community-developments-fact-sheets/pub-fact-sheet-cra-comm-dev-loans-invest-svcs-jan-2019.pdf

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