Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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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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Google Public Sector

MAY 5, 2020

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to being transparent about when governments request our enterprise customers’ data. For the first time, it breaks out the number of government requests we received for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Enterprise Cloud customer data. This version of the report represents an important step forward.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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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. The School of Government property tax law expert, Chris McLaughlin, evaluates possible bias in property tax appeals. unc.live/3SEV3f6. 3W5kbOa.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

Spearheaded by Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), this bipartisan legislation underscores our commitment to addressing systemic vacancy and property deterioration using the tools available at all levels of government. Casey’s office for our work, and the impact this bill will have on neighborhoods across the country.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And whether that involves helping people pay their water bills or allowing law enforcement to preserve crime data, the cost of IT security is worth it, she believes. Here are her suggestions to keep government agencies cyber-secure. In August 2019, 23 local governments, from one end of Texas to another, were hit by ransomware.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

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 ? What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While not all states have mandatory recycling laws, whether for disposables or organic waste, most cities and counties have some sort of voluntary or required household recycling program, separate from requirements for commercial recycling. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent !

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 22, 2024

At the time, our research also led us to a fascinating documentary called, “All the Queen’s Horses.” As a 2016 article from Columbia Law School explained, “ While news headlines often focus on issues of corruption within state or federal governments, the effects of corruption within local municipalities is equally problematic.

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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. Democratic backsliding is the state-led debilitation or elimination of the institutions sustaining democracy.

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The CIO Council

MARCH 28, 2023

Managing and addressing fraud is critical to protecting our taxpayer resources and is a critical responsibility of the Federal Government. They informed attendees of the numerous cross-government fusion centers, such as the IRS Information Sharing and Analysis Center, where leads and patterns regarding fraud can be shared among members.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In this, the second episode of this series, we’re looking at two related problems that come up over and over again: Employees who leave their jobs but retain access to sensitive government technology systems. For those individuals, the cutoff only occurred between a year and 25 months after they left government, according to the audit.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DECEMBER 30, 2020

No disrespect to the complex and difficult technical, often transactional work that is being done, often well, to change the nature of our interactions with many aspects of governing. Fortunately, for the first time in a generation, government has the upper hand. Quote the opposite. Mariana Mazzucato). Roger L Martin).

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft 365 Government price updates - into effect March 1st 2023 On August 2021 we announced an update to our pricing for Microsoft 365 (which applies to all commercial customers: Enterprise, US Government, and Business). Government GCC High endpoints · Office 365 U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. His first order of business was to create a data governance framework. Participation in the data governance framework helps keep data safe and prevents it from being misused.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Introduction This white paper explores the philosophy and implementation strategy of the Federal Responsible and Secure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sandbox, an initiative aimed at promoting responsible and secure AI practices within federal government agencies.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 19, 2022

Help us shape our products for Government organizations. Microsoft is looking to understand employee experience sentiment in government organizations. What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2022 - Government. Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions. Government GCC High endpoints. Newsworthy Highlights.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

APRIL 13, 2022

Under an intermediate scrutiny analysis, the court reasoned that the statute was a reasonable fit for an important government interest of reducing the devastating damage wrought by mass shootings. According to the Ninth Circuit in Bonta , California law allows owners of large-capacity magazines to modify them to accept 10 rounds or fewer.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AWS supports important resources for US citizens to register to vote; plus, government technology companies (GovTechs) use AWS to expand voting resources to Americans across the country. Supporting government voting registration and resource platforms through high demand. From registration deadlines to absentee rules to I.D.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This is welcome news, but deaths are still up 14% since 2019, and drivers in the United States killed 3,373 people in the first half of 2023, after the number of pedestrian deaths reached a four-decade high of more than 7,500 in 2022. million in Medicaid expenditures in just five years. is at an inflection point with road safety.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. My biggest criticism is that they lack resources and are given little in the way of technical assistance (not that the average Commissioner thinks they need it).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy. First, have the four government mortgage agencies 1 strongly support 2 “chattel” loans (i.e., Q4: MH structure-only (i.e.,

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. Moore-Bick, M.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

To address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties, local governments must first identify what types of VAD properties exist in the community. When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We've been calling for a permanent such body put in law, along with vastly improved data reporting for Medicaid. We contacted Patrick Orecki, director of State Studies at the Citizen Budget Commission to see what he had to say about it and here’s what he told us “We certainly think the task force is a good step.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

There are currently three laws staying, or temporarily halting, evictions for tenants in New York City: the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (“CEEFPA”), the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”), and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act. Possessory Judgments. Unexecuted Warrants.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 19, 2022

Known as “Desmond’s Law” it was enacted in October of 2016. The first law of its kind in the nation the statute puts a pro bono lawyer or a law student under the supervision of a law professor in court to advocate for justice for the dog or cat victim of egregious abuse. There is no “get out of jail free’ card any more.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Interesting that the federal government is on the verge of shutting down (" US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too. They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

But since we moved here in Fall 2019 it's only gotten worse--partly because I am now more familiar at a granular level of the b.s. The other thing that the State Legislature is very good at is laws directed at Salt Lake City, taking away local authority, such as to create historic districts. Gerrymandering is even worse than before.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

1) Have several, if not all of the four government mortgage agencies, 6 strongly support and subsidize “chattel loans” (i.e., Added up, this means that MH structure-only homeownership is only a pale imitation of true homeownership, and thus brings into question whether it should enjoy major government policy support.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2024

NHS Long Term Plan In 2019, while the UK was confronted with serious challenges spanning workforce shortages, funding pressures, and increased demand for services, the National Health Service (NHS) announced the launch of its Long Term Plan. This ensures that patient data remains secure and compliant with relevant privacy laws.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

The report says annual tax revenue generated from downtown has declined by $243 million since 2019, and if current conditions are left unabated, could decline by an additional $193 million over the next five to 10 years. New Geography). Downtown brings $2.3

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Mayor’s Order 2020-054 (District residents must "stay in their residences except to perform essential activities, engage in essential business, provide or obtain government services, or engage in certain authorized recreational activities not involving close contact with other persons"); N.Y. 2019); Specialty Tires of Am., & Tenn.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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