Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy.

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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 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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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 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. Get started today.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health held last fall, a commitment was made to invest in local community and economic development to increase access to food (see page 12 of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health presented at the Conference).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

In " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector " (2021) I suggested that some colleges are particularly good at spin off business development and we should figure out how to duplicate and replicate that. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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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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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. Climate change is increasing the magnitude and frequency of floods, storms, droughts, cold snaps and heatwaves.

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The CIO Council

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In May 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14028, “ Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity ,” making cybersecurity a government-wide priority. Whether you’re in emergency response, technology, legal, or law enforcement, the work you do makes a difference in the lives of so many people. Launched last year, the U.S.

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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.

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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)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Across the country, policymakers are dealing with the impact of exclusionary zoning practices that have created barriers to housing supply and restricted access to high-opportunity neighborhoods for low-income families. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 percent to 19.2

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

6 Ways to Support Work From Anywhere The White House recently asked agencies to revisit their telework policies and bring more employees back into the office, at least part-time, to help enhance collaboration. PT to hear government and industry leaders discuss machine learning basics and how they can reshape the way agencies operate.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Furman Center faculty directors Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Kathy O’Regan recently released “ Supply Skepticism Revisited ”, highlighting the latest rigorous research that draws out the nuanced effects housing supply has on housing affordability. 16 hosted at the NYU School of Law. .

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

In this case, how the law would be perceived in the world of public opinion, and the competition between Republicans and Democrats. Council’s tone-deaf response was to enact a law that forces its allies to make a choice between supporting home rule or increasing their own electoral vulnerability. This letter to the editor (" The D.C.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

July 19, 2021. and his brother-in-law L. All of this will take place while the House select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection will be holding hearings. Worth reading and worth subscribing too, judging by my brief experience so far. Heather Cox Richardson. In 1954, William F. Buckley, Jr., Brent Bozell, Jr.,

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout. I'm finally learning not to prognosticate too much. Conclusion.

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