Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Attaining the UK Governments Carbon Net Zero by 2030 and embracing new ways of building and operating built assets to build sustainably and reduce in-use energy consumption. of the UK’s landmass, including 115,000 non-residential buildings and 50,000 houses. Moreover, Glider is supporting the government’s sustainability goals.

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This CDFI Fund article is a great resource that illustrates capitalization strategies and opportunities to help you support the sustainability and growth of a potential capital stack.It Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.

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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. And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016).

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democratic backsliding is the state-led debilitation or elimination of the institutions sustaining democracy. 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.

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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. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

It's creeping out of bankruptcy (" Court order finalizes sale of Harborplace to Baltimore investment management firm ," WBAL-TV). -- " Baltimore's Harborplace in bankruptcy and what that says about certain development trends in urban revitalization ," 2019 There have been a bunch of reports and concept papers in the interim.

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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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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"?);

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Another popular activity is what is called Open Streets, where streets are closed for the day (sometimes in a park like Rock Creek in DC/Maryland, for the weekend) in favor of sustainable mobility and other activities. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Theodore joined First Western in April of 2019 as Director of Marketing. Community Involvement and Philanthropic Pillars.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 27, 2025

An interesting article in Crain's about "the inner suburbs" makes an indirect point about the "old housing stock." We argue about house flippers--most do a bad job. But houses do need to be refreshed every few decades. Courtesy Bedrock and Gensler) More talk about the benefits. More recently, the Cordish Companies "Live!"

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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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." Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s Downtown brings $2.3

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

The key findings of our analysis include the following: Reductions in revenues from 2019 pre-pandemic levels for Florida cities in fiscal years 2021 through 2023 are forecasted to total $5.11 As concluded in the article, a continuing effort is needed to examine the revenue structure and the fiscal relationship with upper-level governments.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For the past 10+ years, in December, I usually publish an entry on winter weather and "maintenance of way" for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit, as most snow clearance planning and practice prioritizes motor vehicles. -- " Snow, winter and the Sustainable Mobility City ," 2019 (includes links to many previous entries) While there is a fair amount (..)

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Haiti After the Earthquake. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019. government (i.e.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

Rather than reprint them in full--recognize that some of the links in previous pieces may be out of date--here are the entries. -- " May is Historic Preservation Month: 60 ways to celebrate | Part 1: Cultural Heritage Tourism (1-19) ," (2019) 1. When we travel, we like to visit house museums. Bookstores. Visitor Centers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. It's due for a re-codification, as the comments are replete with additions. -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," (2018) 8. While dedicated ROW would be nice, it's not required.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. The injuries must not have been sustained in a combat zone. 1713 (2019) (majority denies writ of certiorari for husband's medical malpractice claim due to his Navy Lieutenant's wife's death during childbirth).

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