Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

May 24, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to share the participants for the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF). CRH is the only 501(c)(3) in Puerto Rico dedicated to leveraging vacant and abandoned properties as assets for building sustainable communities. WASHINGTON, D.C. –

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

The Tracker provides ARP budgeted data through last December (2022) for all local governments except Tier 5 (the smallest cities and counties). The data reflect adopted budgets only, not proposals or expenses. Sub-Group of ARP Infrastructure Spending ARP Funds Budgeted (Millions of Dollars) Sewer and Water 23.6 Public Space 12.5 Broadband 2.8

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Amazon currently employs more than 45,000 veterans and military spouses across multiple businesses, including operations, sustainability, Alexa, and AWS. During the 2022 games, AWS supported 300 Warrior Games athletes and over 650 friends and family members. Training and skills development for the military community.

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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

Deadline to Apply March 31, 2022

Grassroots 40

Grassroots Management Local Government Sustainability 40

Reprogramming the City

MARCH 22, 2022

The result of a call for proposals put out in 2020, BART announced in early March 2022 the eight winning ideas for old subway cars. Sustainable Residence and Rental Unit. The owners hope to see the house last upwards of 100 years. We’d like to see them repurposed and have people continue to enjoy these cars.”.

Transportation 130

Transportation Special Projects Laws Sustainability 130

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Building Safety Bill (which met with Royal Assent in 2022 and comes into force in 2023), requires building owners to evidence a Building Safety Case for built assets (over 18 metres tall). of the UK’s landmass, including 115,000 non-residential buildings and 50,000 houses. Infrastructure needed to support defence.

Sustainability 69

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

We’d just moved back in and reopened the doors in October of 2022. In spring 2023, we held our ‘Outdoor Open House’ to showcase the new patios, the terrace, the plaza, and whatnot. So, my job was to try and keep things doable and sustainable without too much stress. “Our building recently underwent an $18.5M

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Press Release Social Media Sustainability Housing 105

The City Fix

JANUARY 12, 2023

Aileen Monsale, a resident of Iloilo City, Philippines, lost her home in 2008 after devastating floods hit the low-lying city following Typhoon Fengshen – which many called a “storm of the century.” Like thousands of people in Iloilo City, her.

Housing 59

Housing Sustainability Development Government 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Water conservation.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Sustainability Housing Management 52

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. So in Spring 2022, I decided to leave my academic job at the end of the semester. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. It was the house.

Nonprofit 98

Nonprofit Housing Cultivation Translation 98

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

Reducing Market Barriers to Sustainable Farm/Food Businesses: A Business/Consumer Perspective . Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

Economic Development 76

Economic Development Community Development Laws Development 76

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

Management 52

Management Elected Officials Transportation Budgeting 52

Government Technology Insider

MAY 23, 2024

In a conversation with State Tech Magazine, Carolyn Staats, Director of Innovation, Sonoma County, explained that county officials found that residents seeking assistance from multiple safety net services would often “bounce from one department to another…without the ability to change their trajectory in a more positive, sustainable direction.

Government Agency 59

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Transportation Sustainability Development 52

Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The garden is a strong example of sustainability in urban settings, and its mural shares an important piece of community history. Despite Colvin’s historical significance, her house was abandoned, and has deteriorated over time. The garden houses a woodworking class to teach residents the skills to repair and update their homes.

Grassroots 52

Grassroots Engagement Housing Community Engagement 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction The United States is in the midst of a severe shortage of affordable housing for low-and-middle-income (LMI) families as both home prices and rents have climbed faster than household income for many years, particularly during the pandemic. with a much higher market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

Housing 97

Housing Legislation Development Government 97

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) They remade it into a full park circle.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc.--should The goal is to ensure a sustainable community for future generations through participation in democratic processes.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Engagement Urban Planning Campaign 52

CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Community Development Loan Workshop: [link] . government material).

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Community Development Development Accountability Nonprofit 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 27, 2025

An interesting article in Crain's about "the inner suburbs" makes an indirect point about the "old housing stock." We argue about house flippers--most do a bad job. But houses do need to be refreshed every few decades. Courtesy Bedrock and Gensler) More talk about the benefits. More recently, the Cordish Companies "Live!"

Development 52

Development Housing Coordinator Strategic Planning 52

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

million households in the UK without internet access, according to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. A report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found that a lack of digital skills costs the UK economy a staggering £63 billion annually.

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Budgeting Security Public Transportation Sustainability 96

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Recently, I thought about demolition of historic buildings in cities like Detroit as deaths, and that they were worthy of a listing in my annual article on "Urbanism-related Obituaries (2022)." Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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Education Urban Planning Housing Social Services 91

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

Government 52

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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." Moore-Bick, M.

Management 92

Management Operations Laws Regulations 92

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

. -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities ," 2022 -- " What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city?

Social Media 52

Social Media Public Safety Housing Management 52

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.

Local Government 40

Local Government Financial Management Budgeting Public Affairs 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Housing Market Needs 5.5 Most economists predict prices will fall some (" Moody's: Home prices to fall in these 210 housing markets—while these 204 markets will go higher ," Fortune ). Amenities as a factor in housing choice. More spending is on the way. “We

Housing 52

Housing Parks And Recreation Public Safety Transportation 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, in 2022 alone, AWS created 1,000 jobs in Singapore. AWS is committed to helping cities across the ASEAN enable more resilient, liveable, and sustainable smart cities. Rajagopal shared how ST Engineering migrated more than 1,000 workloads into the cloud, enabled by in-house cloud practitioners.

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Public Sector Education Government Communications 130

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I lost about a year's photos somehow, including a great photo of bbq use at Sugar House Park in February!!! Jordan River, Salt Lake Why come to Sugar House Park when it is 8-10 miles away from residents on the west side? This is at Liberty Park in SLC. In our case, access is tough issue.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Housing Transportation Engagement 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. It's due for a re-codification, as the comments are replete with additions. -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," (2018) 8. While dedicated ROW would be nice, it's not required. in all seasons.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Children are encouraged to get creative with an arts and crafts project in the Children’s Art Tent. Destination events and problems.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. Destination events and problems.

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Also see Labor Network for Sustainability. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. Trump Administration derides equity as an analytical construct. Urban design and minority communities.

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Transportation Public Transportation Laws Campaign 52