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4 ways AWS can help with Medicaid unwinding

AWS Public Sector Blog

For nearly a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. The top four concerns that SMAs have shared are in approaching outreach and engagement, staffing shortages, returned mail, and reporting capabilities. Scenario 3.

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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)

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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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement

Social Pinpoint

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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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

See past blog entries: -- " Pathetic not revelatory: Quality of bus stop study in San Francisco ," 2021 -- " Bus shelters as social spaces, as potential vectors for virus: Seoul's new anti-covid bus shelter ," 2020 Project for Public Spaces has a report on the topic, Destination Station: Transforming Bus Stops through Community Outreach.

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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

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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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Community First was developed during the pandemic, when NYC closed congregate housing for the unhoused, and moved them to hotels with single rooms. A lot of those hotels were in the Times Square district.