AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The open source app IO was launched in early 2020 by PagoPA , a state-owned company created to spread digital services in Italy, to overturn this paradigm by putting simple and user-centered public services into the citizens’ pockets. OBR uses CamDX as a backbone for exchanging data between related ministries and institutions.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 5, 2024

Four years after the pandemic began in March 2020, much of daily life has returned to normal; mask mandates have been lifted, people gather in large numbers for concerts and conferences, and the unemployment rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels. Work-from-home trends have stabilized since 2022.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). This suggests that public housing agencies may rely on eviction filings as a rent collection strategy. Background and Context.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Despite Colvin’s historical significance, her house was abandoned, and has deteriorated over time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 24, 2024

Surging costs for housing and other expenses are prompting baby boomers to take on roommates. To make ends meet, an increasing number of those 65 and older are choosing shared housing arrangements, helping save money in an era when many have fallen behind on retirement savings and there’s increasing concern about a loneliness epidemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Vacant house and lots in the Larimer neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Better off segments have the money to maintain aging houses.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

A property tax exemption in New York City is necessary to make rental housing development financially feasible across the city’s varied markets, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 22, 2022

The result of a call for proposals put out in 2020, BART announced in early March 2022 the eight winning ideas for old subway cars. The owners hope to see the house last upwards of 100 years. We’d like to see them repurposed and have people continue to enjoy these cars.”. A new life for the old trains is on the way.

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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. How much is the social housing white paper a driver of what you are doing?

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

in September 2022. The Inland Empire is usually more affected by recessions than Los Angeles County, according to the 2022 State of the Region report. So, what has changed and what has been different since 2020? So, what has changed and what has been different since 2020? This is out of the ordinary.

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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). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images).

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And saying we won at “very little cost” may not be entirely ingenuous because the CPI level is still up from 260 in February 2020 to 307 as of September 2023. Since January 2022, CPI ex-food, energy, shelter, and used cars have declined to the Fed’s target 2% level with virtually no rise in unemployment.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction In April, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially solicited public comment on a proposal from Freddie Mac, one of the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) it oversees, to begin a pilot program to finance closed-end second (CES) mortgages. It seems clear it would not.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 3, 2023

The episode also featured Amber Chaudhry, a customer experience lead at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and one of the first federal employees to be highlighted by Humans of Public Service. The 2022 Service to America Medal winners during the awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Episode highlights.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Community Development Loan Workshop: [link] . government material).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 22, 2023

Last month, the White House issued a proclamation that established May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Since 2022, the Biden Administration has increased funding and support to address the national mental health crisis, highlighting it as a pillar within the Unity Agenda announced in his State of the Union address.

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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." Kendon, M.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

Strengthening the city around buildings with meaning and architectural character is the way to go (" Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure "). The Historical Commission, always deferential to real estate interests, continues to allow developers great leeway.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“The interesting thing about this upcoming election is that if there was ever an election where the incumbent party is likely to hold their seats, it's probably 2022.” - Ben Bishin on the topic of the future of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterm election cycle.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“The interesting thing about this upcoming election is that if there was ever an election where the incumbent party is likely to hold their seats, it's probably 2022.” - Ben Bishin on the topic of the future of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterm election cycle.

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Policy Chats

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“The interesting thing about this upcoming election is that if there was ever an election where the incumbent party is likely to hold their seats, it's probably 2022.”. - Ben Bishin on the topic of the future of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterm election cycle. Guest: Ben Bishin (UCR Professor of Political Science).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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