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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 percent of the total land across the five boroughs but contain just 28.4

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. July 26 marks the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by President George H.W.

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Enhancing Federal AI Safety: Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox

Microsoft Public Sector

AI Executive Orders, Laws, and Regulations In recent years, several laws and executive orders have been enacted to govern the use of AI across various sectors in the United States, ensuring that its deployment is ethical, secure, and compliant with existing regulations.

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Untapped feedback at our fingertips: a Former Police Chief’s Response to the Recent Police-Public Contact Survey

zencity

Law enforcement has become much better at utilizing data to make informed decisions in recent decades. Law enforcement relies on crime data to identify trends and deploy resources accordingly, to use in budget formulation and planning, and to assess the efficacy of crime reduction efforts. About 21% (53.8

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An Opportunity, not a Threat: Leveraging Increased Police Scrutiny for Reflection and Improvement?

zencity

Immediately following the tragic murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, a cry for structural and meaningful change to policing could be heard across the nation. A 2020 poll showed that Americans’ confidence in the police has dropped to a record low. A call for reflection and engagement. A moment of increased scrutiny.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 5 (2020): 823-842.

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