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Developing the US cybersecurity workforce with CISA

AWS Public Sector Blog

Jen Easterly, United States Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency since 2021, poses for a portrait with Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt, ahead of an event on business cyber security initiatives at Amazon on September 29, 2022 in Seattle. Photo by Daniel Berman/Amazon. 29, 2022 in Seattle. “We

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2024 Update: Local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The data shows that affordable housing developers continue to struggle with closing financial gaps in their projects (Table 1). The median development cost per unit remained steady at $250,000, more than 50% higher than in 2020. However, funding for WHLP lapsed from 2021 to 2023, just as construction costs surged.

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Carlisle develops a vibrant engagement platform to revamp public spaces for its community

Citizen Lab

In mid-2021, they launched a CitizenLab platform and set out to generate ideas about how to use their new public spaces and what they… The post Carlisle develops a vibrant engagement platform to revamp public spaces for its community appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog.

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Recent Trends in Real Estate Development: Fall 2023

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

This blog post is the first in a regular series aimed at informing local government partners about current conditions facing private developers and development projects in their communities. In 2021, for example, a developer able to secure a $5 million loan with 3.5% With an interest rate of 8.5%

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The City Is the Solution: Celebrating Jaime Lerner

The City Fix

Jaime Lerner passed away on May 27, 2021. A world-renowned Brazilian urbanist, he was three times mayor of Curitiba and two times governor of the southern state of Paraná. Besides his great ideas, he was a very kind person and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transit oriented development station typology revisited

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote a summary piece about this a few years ago, " The ability to develop around transit stations is conditional on land use and mobility context " (2021). From the entry: Categorizing transit stations in terms of access (and indirectly, the opportunity for development.

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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.