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.

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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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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. DoD based its 2020 data strategy on eight guiding principles that can serve as a useful model for other organizations in creating their own policies. Here are ways to carry out each principle.

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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 Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. This was all laid out by Congress in their charters (i.e.

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iGrantWriters

JULY 7, 2021

Description A second round of Human Services Interoperability Innovations (HSII) cooperative agreements is proposed to accelerate data sharing efforts by human services organizations through innovative approaches to interoperability implementation. Proposes a new or novel implementation approach; 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? Can cities step up and take a more direct, assertive, and agile role in this process? There are six large city parks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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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. These are just some examples.)

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In any case, most banks will have at least one more CRA examination before the new finalized regulations are implemented, and it’s important to put the bank ’ s best face forward. As 2020 and 2021 will be included within the scope of upcoming examinations, there is an opportunity to identify qualifying loans. How Do You Prepare?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. Charlotte strives to stay involved in modernization initiatives for the House of Representatives, where she feels technology can strengthen democracy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2022

It's a relatively new addition to the Streetwatch program, implemented last year, when during covid's peak, Times Square was seemingly empty compared to it being a busy office and theater district, and so problems seemed much more visible and frequent, even if the number of incidents wasn't much different from before.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Clean Air Choice These tips from the American Lung Association shows ways you can reduce air pollution by implementing simple changes such as using mass transit and opting for shorter vacations. Clean Air Gardening Learn how to make your gardening techniques even greener by implementing organic products that won’t contaminate the eco-system.

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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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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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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. Brokerage commissions.

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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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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. This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials.

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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

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," (2021) -- " St.

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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. Federal employee mental health issues on the rise The Office of Personnel Management has been urging federal agencies and leaders to improve their mental health resources for employees since 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, there are few examples of its implementation, as police departments did mostly "zero tolerance policing" calling it community policing. Broken windows successfully implemented on the NYC Subway in the early 1990s. communicate that it's okay to commit crime.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many companies and organisations have built in-house teams to accelerate (with mixed success) their access to specialist knowledge. Though the implementation of AI in the defence space has lagged behind other sectors, the appetite for innovation is clear. In 2020, countries globally spent $1.9

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

FWIW, Allegheny Hospital in particular is a best practice example in their support of local community development corporations, providing grants to staff towards housing purchases near the hospital, which extends to West Penn in Bloomfield, etc. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dr. Anthony Fauci, our 2020 Federal Employee of the Year , presented the award to his friend and colleague, saying that he “epitomizes the outstanding caliber of public servants found at the National Institutes of Health.”. These public servants coordinated the largest resettlement of refugees in modern U.S.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 15, 2023

It took the White House until 1995 to issue an executive order stating that the government would not do so. Due in part to this directive, the percentage of federal employees who identify as LGBTQ+ has grown in recent years—from less than 6% in 2020 to almost 7% in 2022.

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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. For example, it ranks 170th out of 180 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Introduction The most discussed topic in housing finance policy in the last few months has been whether and when the second Trump administration (Trump II) might end the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). It has been amended in several modest ways since then.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In non-emergency situations, local government housing loans are authorized “only when the planning, construction, and financing of residential housing is not otherwise available to ‘persons and families of low income’” due to “the inability of private enterprise and investment, without assistance, to meet that need.” Section V.B.2

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. In 2020, there were 6,146 veteran suicides, which averages to 16.8 Our data lake house is organized into three distinct zones—landing (raw), cleansed (analytics-ready), and curated (purpose-ready).

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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] It was later revised, and meant also to be used post-conservatorship, in 2020. [10]

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Note that I think my Signature Streets concept is more expansive (" Extending the "Signature Streets" concept to "Signature Streets and Spaces" ," 2020). -- Complete Streets webpage , US DOT, via archive.org It's not the end of the world. And, umm, such interventions are already studied before being implemented.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This means the current administration has the power to make changes in GSE mortgage programs and policies that could materially impact large numbers of current and prospective homeowners, as well as the mortgage and housing industries. First, the White House can tell the FHFA what to do in as much detail as it chooses.

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