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2021 Engagement Housing 
Center for Community Progress
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The State of Land Banking survey, first conducted in 2021, serves as an opportunity for the land banking field to tell its story with comprehensive data. 81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. This post highlights some of the key findings and analysis.
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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.
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Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally. Episode transcript available here: [link].
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GovLoop
JULY 27, 2023
The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. Still, 50% of transactions were completed in less than 15 minutes, according to the bureau’s 2021 annual report (the most recent report available). Residents have noticed.
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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
North Carolina suffers from a lack of affordable housing options for low and moderate income households. In a May 2022 post , Tyler outlined many of the ways in which North Carolina’s local governments can aid the development of privately owned affordable housing.
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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MARCH 31, 2023
(behind Florida & Texas) – largely due to international migration rebounding a couple years after COVID shut it down in 2020-2021. link] Other CED Items: NYT reports on how local governments are reconsidering parking requirements; there are currently 7 spaces available for every car in the U.S.
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Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.
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AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 13, 2022
A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2021 ; Gubits et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ).
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GovLoop
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
That’s why the White House made CX a federal priority starting with an Executive Order issued in 2021, which recognized that every public interaction with government is an opportunity to build or lose trust, and why state CIOs have ranked CX a top priority every year since then.
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First State Insights
OCTOBER 4, 2021
In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0
GovLoop
JANUARY 8, 2024
And in 2022, the tribe opened a transitional housing facility for individuals and families escaping domestic violence. It can house up to 10 families. The program offers cultural healing through classes in traditional arts. Since its founding, ONE FIRE has helped at least 2,000 survivors.
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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."
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Center for Community Progress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Despite Colvin’s historical significance, her house was abandoned, and has deteriorated over time. Community Voices Project mailer (back).
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.
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Center for Community Progress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
When Community Progress’ National Land Bank Network (NLBN) conducted its first national land bank survey in 2021, land banks across the country told us they wanted to move beyond a focus on individual properties and transactions to find ways to make transformational change in their communities.
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
monument houses while you’re there and join the AFCEA DC Toy Drive Challenge to help surpass the Toys for Tots drive goal of 8,000 toys. In 2021, more than $175,000 was raised for STEM scholarships, and AFCEA is aiming to exceed that figure this year with proceeds from the event.
Super Library Marketing
MAY 15, 2023
It can’t clean my house or weed my flower bed. Because its data feed only extends to 2021, it assumed I was referring to King Charles I or King Charles II. ” The application said: Based on the information provided, it looks like your email campaign had a successful engagement rate. Is that good?”
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iGrantWriters
JULY 7, 2021
Engages in productive partnerships across programs, agencies, and jurisdictions. Learn more about the ACF Interoperability Initiative at [link] Learn about previous Human Service Interoperability grant projects at [link] Deadline to Apply September 01, 2021 Supports strong collaboration with OPRE and ACF; 6.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 4, 2021
In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court. Background.
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Center for Community Progress
OCTOBER 12, 2023
If your community plans to engage in activities under the expanded CDBG-eligible use category, work closely with your local CDBG compliance officer. With this usage expansion, communities can use ARPA SLFRF for activities that could help reduce and prevent vacant properties. What are the expenditure limits?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Today we had a ribbon cutting for the new Fabian Lakeside Pavilion at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake, where I am on the board. Luckily, we have a couple of more engaged board members, and the board is becoming more active and less passive. = One of seven pavilions, they are about 60 years old. Still, 8 years.
Center for Community Progress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The City of Raton passed a Vacant Building Registration Ordinance (VBRO) in 2021 and began using a case management software to track code enforcement data. Though it is in an otherwise healthy neighborhood and could be the site of desperately needed affordable housing, 123 Raton Street remains stuck in legal and market limbo.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). Cities cost money to operate. blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.
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. In 2021, after 10 years of entrepreneurship, she joined Granicus as the Strategic Lead for CX and Innovation. She holds a PMP, and CSM, and received her B.A.
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Open Access Government - Technology News
JUNE 22, 2023
AI can enhance customer engagement, streamline operations, and provide a competitive advantage when implemented effectively, but, without ethical systems, could result in serious challenges of bias. Machine learning, a subset of AI, utilises large amounts of data and algorithms to mimic human learning.
Death and Taxes
JULY 21, 2021
Based on the real monthly updates on the Florida state and county unemployment rates in 2020, we estimated each county’ unemployment rate in 2021 and 2022 to forecast the revenue impact for FY 2022 and FY 2023. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 19, 2024
1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); Social Marketing 3.
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
On September 17, 2021, CoWIN recorded 22.5 In 2021, the region launched the first Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) in Singapore, which works with public sector agencies to identify pressing social challenges, test new ideas, and develop industry-focused solutions. When it first launched, 1.9 million people accessed the system.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.
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CRA Today
DECEMBER 31, 2022
Once you identify these priorities, it is valuable to engag e the bank ’ s board of directors and senior management in order to understand their rating expectations. This ensures they understand the four cornerstones of community development: (1) A ffordable housing; (2) C ommunity services; (3) E conomic development; and. (4)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Later he was fired because Mayor Guiliani didn't like how much attention that Bratton got by the press and public, and the policing strategy changed from data based to what is called Zero Tolerance Policing, which could be pretty oppressive and didn't engage the community. A program at Union Station is a huge step ").
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 3, 2023
Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.
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Microsoft Public Sector
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Microsoft’s newest security brand category, Microsoft Priva, was first announced at Ignite in 2021—today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Priva for the Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High, and Department of Defense (DoD) customers. Announcing New Teams Developer Portal for GCC.
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. labor force of 168 million.
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AWS Public Sector Blog
AUGUST 31, 2022
This year’s cohort brought forward innovative ideas that will improve access to care, provide actionable health equity data, expand access to medical transport, and help people without a home reach housing and health goals. Through this micro-engagement platform, they bring health equity to vulnerable, hard to reach, and diverse communities.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 29, 2024
Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)
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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.
Partnership for Public Service
MAY 22, 2023
Last month, the White House issued a proclamation that established May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health initiatives and prevention workforces have already made great strides in lowering the suicide rate among active-duty personnel within the DOD from 2020 to 2021.
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GovLoop
MARCH 15, 2024
The Biden administration laid out its agenda in the May 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO), then offered a more sweeping vision in the March 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy. In the past three years, the federal government has increased its efforts to advance cybersecurity technology and strategy.
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Bang the Table
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In November 2021, the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal of new federal investment in America’s infrastructure. The Need for Digital Community Engagement on Infrastructure Projects. Transportation and Bridge Funding.
American City & Country
AUGUST 19, 2024
Launched in 2021, Justice40 aims to deliver 40 percent of federal climate and clean energy investments to “disadvantaged” communities. But Jonestown is not wholly disadvantaged; it is home to many engaged residents, including Lake, who serve as “community ambassadors.” Make it easier for communities to engage.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Are there children in the house? ChopChop Family is an initiative promoting healthier eating for families, and greater engagement by children in preparing meals. Inflation along with rising wage rates have also affected restaurants. Pandemic: Supply chain and now inflation. They published a quarterly magazine, ChopChop.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
The third is preserving housing. The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. There just aren't that many jobs.
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