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Mexico Made Safe Mobility a Human Right — Here’s How Its Streets Can Become Safer

The City Fix

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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Voices: The Role of Mobile Printers Grows in Local Government and Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

billion in 2020, according to Emergen Research. Mobile printers — paired with flexible, simultaneous Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity — are frequently used in local government, particularly in public safety, law enforcement and voting.

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How the City of Canton worked with Wi-Fiber to build a safer and more connected community

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020, the City of Canton, Ohio set out to build a better, safer, and more connected community. The city worked with government technology (GovTech) company Wi-Fiber, a network infrastructure provider using AWS Direct Connect from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn more about Wi-Fiber.

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Decker, Andrew.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. Law enforcement personnel could identify spikes in overdoses and send their task force to area hospitals to interview individuals and determine where the drugs were sourced. “By We were also able to evolve and iterate.

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May is National Historic Preservation Month | Why after almost 60 years since the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, is preservation such a hard slog?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this. So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article. At the same time, for a city, preservation is pretty cheap.

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